Vahram Alazan
Vahram Alazan (Template:Langx), born Vahram Gabuzyan (Template:Langx) (19 May (6 May O.S.) 1903 in Van – 17 May 1966 in Yerevan),[1] was an Armenian poet, writer, and public activist, who served as the First Secretary of the Writers Union of Armenia from 1933 to 1936.[2]
Biography
A survivor of Armenian genocide, Alazan fled to Yerevan in 1915.[2] After the Sovietization of Armenia, he became the head of the Proletarian Writer's Association of the Armenian SSR in 1923.[2] 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."[2] After Stalin's death in 1953, he was rehabilitated during the Khrushchev Thaw on July 21, 1954.[3]
Selected works
- The Games of Summer (1923), poems
- Poet's Heart (1954), poems
- Northern Star (1956), novel
- Horizons (1957), poems
- Memoirs (1960)
References
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- Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire
- Soviet writers
- 20th-century Armenian poets
- Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
- People from Van, Turkey
- Armenian refugees
- Witnesses of the Armenian genocide
- 1903 births
- 1966 deaths
- Armenian male poets
- Soviet Armenians