Dikran Chökürian

Dikran Chökürian
Dikran Chokurian
Born 1884 (1884)
Gümüşhane, Ottoman Turkey
Died 1915 (1916) (aged = 31)
Ayaş, Ottoman Turkey
Occupation 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

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