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Aleksandr Movsesian was born on 18 April 1858, into a tailor's family in the province of Shirvan  and later adopted the Persian-inspired pen-name Shirvanzade (son of Shirvan).

Shirvanzade's concerns with capitalism and feminism fuse in his drama, Namus (For the Sake of Honor) (1904). In 1916, Maxim Gorki wrote that Shirvanzade's works "were known and read not only in the Caucasus but also in England, in the Scandinavian Peninsula, and Italy."

By Irina Aloyan

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Muratsan was born in the city of Shushi to a middle-class family. His father was a craftsman. Until the age of 12 he studied at a local private school. Two years later he enrolled in the diocesan school, from which he graduated in June 1873. Upon his return to Shushi he wrote a brief history of the noble Hasan-Jalalyan family. In 1878 he moved to Tiflis, where he worked as a teacher and accountant and remained for the rest of his life. He became famous after the production of his historical drama Ruzan at a Tiflis theater in 1882. In addition to Gevorg Marzpetuni, he wrote many short stories and novels, including The Apostle. An intensely nationalistic writer, Muratsan was a nineteenth-century Romantic in style and an advocate of traditional cultural and religious values.
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Nar-Dos was born to a wool seller's family in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1867.  At the beginning he was writing poems, dramas, stories and eventually he started to write only in prose. The main character of Nar-Dos’s compositions is human being with his corresponding human and moral characteristics.  Nar-Dos had a sharp feeling of modernism and mastery in arts.        Nar-Dos died in 1933 in Tbilisi.He is buried in Khojivank Armenian cemetery . By Narine

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Vahan Tekeyan was known as a perfectionist, because he always looked for the precise word. He was born in Istanbul in 1978 and educated in the Armenian schools there. His first poems were collected and published in 1901. Besides his own books, he published translations of French symbolist poetry and the sonnets of Shakespeare. The sonnet remained his favorite form.

During the 1896 persecutions, Tekeyan left Istanbul for Europe. He returned, but subsequently settled in Egypt, where he was active in Armenian political life and edited the Armenian newspaper, Arev.

His books are "Burdens" (1901), "The Wonderful Rebirth" (1914), "From Midnight Until Dawn" (1918), "Love" (1933), "Armenian Songs" (1943), and "Book of Odes" (1944).
by Mary Ghazaryan

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         Gurgen Mahari                                                                                            

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         Gurgen Mahari                                                                                            

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Gurgen fled to Eastern Armenia in 1915 during the Armenian genocide and found refuge in orphanages in Etchmiadzin, Dilijan, and Yerevan. His first book, Titanic, was published in 1924. He then wrote his autobiographical trilogy (first part, "Childhood" was published in 1929, and the third part was finished in 1955) which tells the story of his survival and the tragedy experienced by the Armenians of Western Armenia. He was arrested in 1936, during the Stalinist purges and sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment in Siberia. He was released in 1947, but a year later was again arrested and sent into Siberian exile as an 'unreliable type'. He was allowed to return to Yerevan in 1954 following Stalin's death.He is also the author of Charents-name (1968), memoirs about Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents, and of Barbed Wires in Blossom, a novella based largely on his personal experiences in a Soviet gulag.
by Elen Khachikyan

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The bearer of this non-Armenian name with an Armenian last name was born in 1908 in Fresno, California, to a poor family of Armenian immigrants.

William Saroyan wrote more than 1,500 short stories, 12 plays, and 10 novels.

“Although I write in English and I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters,” said Saroyan of himself, and there are no better words to describe him, but his own.

When Saroyan died in 1981 he was buried in Fresno.
His name was on the lips of two generations, and countries around the world clamored for his work. He was the only writer to turn down the Pulitzer Prize.
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By Irina Aloyan

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Vardges Petrosyan was an Armenian writer of fiction and drama.
Vardges Petrosyan, a prominent novelist, playwright and essayist was born in 1932 in the town of Ashtarak, where he spent his childhood years, finished school and began writing his first verses.
In 1954, he graduated from the Yerevan University and started writing for several youth newspapers. As a newspaper correspondent he travelled all over his native Armenia and throughout the entire Soviet Union—from 'Yakutia in Eastern Siberia to Karelia in the northwest of the country.
His first collection of poems, "The Ballad About Man", came out in 1958, to be followed by collections of essays, feature stories and tales.
Vardges Petrosyan is best known for his novels "The Last Teacher", "Letters from the Small Stations of Childhood", "The Ani Drugstore", "The Armenian Sketches" and also for his play "The Heavy Weight of Hippocrates' Hat". Petrosyan is a winner of the Armenian Republic's State Prize and Komsomol Prize.
In 1966, he became the editor-in-chief of an Armenian youth monthly "Garun" (Spring) where he worked till 1975 when he was elected the First Secretary of the Board of Writers' Union of Armenia.
One story only has been translated into English, as "The solitary hazel tree" by Vardges Petrosyan in Soviet literature. no. 5 (422) (1983) ISSN 0202-1870
Petrosyan was shot dead on 15 April 1994 near the entrance to his house in Yerevan. In 2000, the school No. 51 of Yerevan was named after Vardges Petrosyan.
By: Astghik Vardanyan

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Vahan Totovents was born in Kharpeth (modern Turkey). He studied in Armenia and Istanbul, then at Wisconsin University which he finished in 1915.
He was a volunteer on the Caucasian front during World War I and served as bodyguard, translator and secretary to General Andranik Ozanian, about whom he wrote memoirs that were published in 1920. In Tbilisi Totovents edited the newspaper "Hayastan", General Andranik's official organ.

Since 1922 he lived in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia. In 1937 he fell victim to Stalinism. A prolific and multifaceted writer, Vahan Totovents (1889–1937) had an equal facility for writing poems in prose and verse, short stories, novellas, novels, critical and biographical works, comedies, dramas, translations from Shakespeare, and a widely read and admired autobiographical work titled Life on the Old Roman Road. Writes Rupen Zartarian in his reminiscences of Totovents: "He wrote fast. He had no trouble finding the right word. His sentences flowed with ease. He didn't try to achieve perfection, only spontaneity. He had something to say and he said it. He was never idle. A born writer and a reporter by training, he never waited for inspiration. And since his urge to write came from deep within and was irresistible, sentences and paragraphs followed one another with phenomenal speed."
By: Sus Mkrtumyan