Vahram Alazan
Vahram Alazan, born Vahram Gabuzyan (19 May (6 May O.S.) 1903 in Van – 17 May 1966 in Yerevan), was an Armenian poet, writer, and public activist, who served as the First Secretary of the Writers Union of Armenia from 1933 to 1936.
Also recorded as Vahram Martirosi Alazan · Alazan, Vahram Martirosi
Vahram Alazan
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- Name
- Vahram Alazan Վահրամ Ալազան
- Birth Name
- Vahram Gabuzyan
- Born
- 19 May 1903
- Birthplace
- Van, Van vilayet, Ottoman Empire
- Died
- 17 May 1966
- Place of death
- Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Writer
- Spouse
- Maro Alazan
- Full name
- Վահրամ Մարտիրոս Գաբուզեան.
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire and Soviet Union.
- Honours
- Order of the Badge of Honour.
- Languages
- Armenian.
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• Name — Vahram Alazan Վահրամ Ալազան • Birth Name — Vahram Gabuzyan • Born — 19 May 1903 • Birthplace — Van, Van vilayet, Ottoman Empire • Died — 17 May 1966 • Place of death — Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Writer • Language — Armenian • Spouse — Maro Alazan
Documentary record
Vahram Alazan (1903 – 1966) is described as a writer and editor in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Vahram Alazan was born in 1903 in Van and died in 1966 in Jerewan.
Biography
Biography
A survivor of Armenian genocide, Alazan fled to Yerevan in 1915. After the Sovietization of Armenia, he became the head of the Proletarian Writer's Association of the Armenian SSR in 1923. His works, such as the poetic anthology Songs of Construction and Victory and the novel On the Sixtieth Horizon, became widely popular among Armenian readers. During Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, Alazan was arrested and exiled to Siberia, a place that "looms large in some of his verse and prose." After Stalin's death in 1953, he was rehabilitated during the Khrushchev Thaw on July 21, 1954.
Selected works
Selected works
• The Games of Summer (1923), poems • Poet's Heart (1954), poems • Northern Star (1956), novel • Horizons (1957), poems • Memoirs (1960)
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- 1.Алазан Баграм , Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- 2.Bardakjian, Kevork B. A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature 1500-1920. Wayne State University Press. 270. 2000. 0-8143-2747-8.
- 3.Shakarian, Pietro A. Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin. Indiana University Press. 60. 2025. 978-0253073556.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Alazan, Vahram. Տառապանքի ուղիներում. Antares. 2023. 978-9939-98-034-8.
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