- Vahram Alazan
Vahram Alazan ("Gabuzian", 1903, Van - 1966,
Yerevan ) was anArmenia n poet, writer and public activist, the First Secretary of theWriters Union of Armenia from 1933 to 1936.A survivor of
Armenian Genocide , in 1915 he moved to Yerevan and since 1925 headed the Proletaric Writer's Association of Armenia. His poetic collection "Songs of Construction and Victory" became popular among the Armenian readers. Then he published "At the 60th horizon" novel. During the stalinist terror of 1937-1954 Alazan was prisoned inSiberia . In 1957 he published "Horizons" collection of philosophical poems. He was the founding director of the Perch Proshyan House-Museum inAshtarak [ [http://www.armeniainfo.am/sites/?section=museums_desc&est_id=714 Perch Proshyan House-Museum] ] .Books
*"The Games of Summer", poems (1923),
*"Poet's Heart", poems (1954)
*"Northern Star", novel (1956),
*"Memoires" (1960).ources
* [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/litenc/article/le1/le1-0881.htm?text=%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD Alazan in Russian Literary Encyclopedia]
* [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse/article/00001/76600.htm?text=%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD Alazan in Great Soviet Encyclopedia]
*Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Vol. 1, Yerevan, 1990, pp. 73.References
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