Antranig Dzarugian

Antranig Dzarougian or Andranik Tsarukyan (Armenian Անդրանիկ Ծառուկեան, reformed Անդրանիկ Ծառուկյան, * 1913 in Gürün, Sivas Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, † 1989 in Beirut, Lebanon), was an influential Armenian diaspora writer, poet, educator and journalist of the 20th century.

Life

Dzarougians father " Tschelo Toros " was one of the fighters of the Armenian fedayeen against the Ottoman army. During the years of the Armenian genocide Dzarougian was separated during the death marches into the Syrian desert by his mother and spent his childhood in an Armenian orphanage in Aleppo. In 1921 he met his mother again in Aleppo and moved to the local Haygazian school. In the same year, his father was arrested and murdered in prison for his participation in the Marash Armenian patriotic movement.

Dzarougian moved to Beirut to continue his education at the newly opened Armenian College. Among his teachers were celebrities like Nikol Aghbalian and Levon Schant. After completing Dzarougian began his career as a teacher at Armenian schools in Aleppo and Beirut. Since 1950, he published the literary weekly paper Nayiri in Beirut.

His most famous works " people without childhood " ( Մանկութիւն Չունեցող Մարդիկ ) and " miracle exemplary Aleppo " ( Երազային Հալէպը ) are autobiographies, which are dedicated to his childhood life in the orphanage of Aleppo.

Dzarugian visited the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic for the first time in 1956. His impressions of this trip to the home country ( Հին Երազներ Նոր Ճամբաներ ) are in his book " Old dreams, new paths " played.

Swell

• Dzarougian: Ethereal Aleppo '
• Hrach Kalsahakian translations

• Literature ( Armenian)
• Teacher
• Armenians (Ottoman Empire)
• Syrian
• Lebanese
• Person (Sivas )
• Born in 1913
• Died in 1989
• Man