Mahari Gurgen

Achemyan Gurgen (Gregory)
Mahari Gurgen
Armenian:	Աճեմյան Գուրգեն Գրիգորի
Russian:	Аджемян Гурген Григорьевич Маари Гурген
Born:	01.08.1903 Van, the Western Armenia
Died:	16.07.1969 Palanga, Lithuania.
Description: Poet, writer, fiction writer, specialist in literature.

Biography

Was born on August 1, 1903 in Van, the Western Armenia (now Turkey).

Education

• Studied at the "Norashen" and "Yeramyan" colleges, later at the YSU at the historical-linguistic faculty.

Work Activity

• started his creative life with the poems "Titanic" (1926), "The Poplars" (1927) and the digest "Mrgahas", which particularly brought him lierary recognition, including ballads and poems.
• Had begun to prose since the late 1920s, as a result of which published his digests "About Love, Jealousy and the Partisans of Nizza" (1929) and " In Zigzags"- a collection of short stories (1931).
• The trilogy "The Childhood" (1928), "The Adolescence" (1929-1930) and "The Youth Shadow" (written during his second exile in 1952-1955) presents the experiences of Mahari's personal life.
• In 1950s Mahari's creative life gained a new impetus when the digests "The Hearths" (1959), "The Voice of Silence" (1962), and the novel "The Burning Orchards" (1966) were published.

Achievements

• In 1934 became a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR.
• In 1965 became an honoured figure in culture of the Armenian SSR.
• Was awarded the State Prize posthumously for the novel "The Bloomed Barbed Wires".

Other

• When he was only 8, his uncle shot his father allegedly accidently.
• In 1915 while migrating to the Eastern Armenia

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Bibliography

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See also

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