Writer (b. 1886, Armutlu / İliç / Erzincan – d. 1978). He
attended Galata Getronagan Primary School and Robert College. He met and was
influenced by Keğam Parsehyan, Zabel Esayan, Savarş Misakyan, Ardaşeş
Harutyunyan and Rupen Zartanyan, the important journalists and writers of the
time. His works have been translated from Armenian into Turkish by Silva
Kuyumcuyan and are important in that they reflect the multi-cultural social
structure of his time.
WORKS:
İstanbul
Anıları 1897-1940 (Memories
in İstanbul 1897-1940, 1993; with notes by Necdet Sakaoğlu, 1998), Armıdan Fırat'ın Öte Yanı (Armıdan, the
Other Side of Euphrates, 1998), Küği
Gabri İm Meçis (in Armenian), Kapandı
Kirve Kapıları (The Gates of the Friends are Closed, short stories,
translated by Nurhan Büyük Kürkciyan, 2001), Atina, Tuzun Var mı? (Athens, Do You Have any Salt, 2001).
