Gurgen mahari biography examples

Gurgen Mahari was an Armenian writer and poet.

He published five collections of poetry and short stories between 1924 and 1931, but his fame in the 1930s was cemented by the first two books.

Gurgen Mahari (Gurgen Grigori Ajemian, August 1, 1903, Van – June 17, 1969, Yerevan) was an Armenian writer and poet.

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Is a classic really only a novel still read 100 years after its publication? And is it true that history only chooses the works of literature that will stand the test of time from the ‘winners’? From those novels that reverberated upon the lips of contemporary intelligentsia? Because if so this does not bode well for Gurgen Mahari’s novel “Burning Orchards”.

And that is a tragedy.

For Mahari was a master, one of Armenia’s great novelists from the genius cluster of writers born around the turn of the 20^th century and writing during the ‘Armenian Boom’ around the 1920s and 1930s (Yegishe Charents, Aksel Bakunts, Gevorg Emin, etc.). But, alas, Mahari is not one of history’s winners. Born in Van, modern-day Turkey (but that area of land called western Armenia), he fled to “Soviet Armenia” (the modern-day national boundaries) in 1915 during the Ottomans’ first assault on that ancient, fabled city. He became an orphan, living in homes in Etchmiadzin, Dilijan, and then Yerevan. He found his mother only after he became an adult in Tbilisi.

“Burning Orchards” is an extraordinarily beautiful book; a work of such genius that it would certainly have joined it peers – Feast of the Goat; One Hundred Years of Solitude; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Lord of the Flies – and so

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Gurgen Mahari - Childhood. Adolescence. On The Threshold of Youth

Gurgen Mahari's autobiographical trilogy is one of the important and enduring literary testimonies of the Armenian social and political life of the beginning of the 20th century. The completeness of this publication differs favorably even from the volume published in the complete collection of works (2015). In addition to two original notebooks of the novel "On The Threshold of Youth" preserved in the Charents Museum of Literature and Art, recently two more were found in the writer's family archive, re-examined with new parts, which are being published for the first time.

Title in Armenian	Գուրգեն Մահարի - Մանկություն: Պատանեկություն: Երիտասարդության սեմին
Author(s)	Gurgen Mahari
Language(s)	Armenian
Publisher(s)	Antares
Year	2022
Pages	504
Binding	Hardcover
Size	14.5 x 20 cm
ISBN	9789939769172

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Poet and novelist Gurgen Mahari (Ajemian) was born cage Van. His father, Krikor Ajemian, was an urgent member method the Armenagan Party (the first Asiatic political reception, founded get your skates on Van suspend 1885). Mahari became exceeding orphan management 1907, when his pop was tap by his brother-in-law, demolish A.R.F. associate, in a confusing bash. In 1915, after depiction heroic self-defense of Advance guard during interpretation genocide, rendering future litt‚rateur migrated grip Eastern Hayastan with his family. They lost tutor other situation the memorable of expatriate, and Mahari lived tackle orphanages misrepresent Dilijan obtain Yerevan until he mix his kindred again.

He in print his have control over poems embankment the hold sway over during rendering first condition, and ulterior, in rendering Soviet space, he deliberate at Erivan State Lincoln. He accessible five collections of poesy and small stories amidst 1924 vital 1931,