Gurgen Mahari

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Gurgen Mahari (real name - Gurgen Grigori Ajemian, August 1, 1903, Van - June 17, 1969, Yerevan) was an Armenian writer and poet.

In 1915 during the Armenian genocide Gurgen's family emigrated to Russia. His first book, Titanic was published in 1924. Then he wrote his autobiographical trilogy (first part, "Childhood" was published in 1929, and the third part was finished in 1955) which tells his story of survivor and the tragedy of Western Armenians.

He was arrested by Soviet secret police at the period of Stalinism and released after Stalin's death (Mahari was sentenced to 10 years' confinement in 1937, returned in 1947 and one year later exiled again).

He is also the author of the novel Burning gardens (1966) and Charents-name (1968), memoires about Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents.

Persondata
NAME	Mahari, Gurgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ajemian, Gurgen Grigori (real name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Armenian writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Van, Turkey
DATE OF DEATH	June 17, 1969
PLACE OF DEATH	Yerevan, Armenia