- Dikran Chökürian
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Dikran Chokurian Born 1884
Gümüşhane, Ottoman TurkeyDied 1915 (aged = 31)
Ayaş, Ottoman TurkeyOccupation Novelist, editor, painter, writer, and teacher. Dikran Chökürian (1884, Gümüşhane, Ottoman Empire - 1915) was an Armenian writer and teacher, editor of Vostan ("The Capital City") newspaper, a victim of Armenian Genocide.
He finished the Berberian college of Constantinople in 1907, then worked as a teacher in Armenian schools. Chokurian became known in 1910, when he published his novels in a separate book named "Hayreni dzayner". In 1914 he published "Vanke" (The Monastery) roman that was dedicated to the power and victory of civilization and freedom. Among with a number of Armenian intellectuals he was arrested and killed in 1915.
Sources
- "Armenian Question", encyclopedia, ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 373
External links
- Biography (Russian)
Categories:- 1883 births
- 1915 deaths
- People from Gümüşhane
- Ottoman Armenians
- Armenian writers
- Armenian Genocide victims
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