| Antranig Dzarugian | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1913 Gürün, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1989 Beirut, Lebanon |
| Occupation | Author, Poet |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Genres | Satire |
| Subjects | Society, politics |
Antranig Dzarugian (TAO: Անդրանիկ Ծառուկեան, RAO: Անդրանիկ Ծառուկյան, 1913–1989) was an influential diasporan Armenian writer, poet, educator and journalist in the 20th century.[1]
Dzarugian was born in Gürün in 1913. His father "Chelo Toros" was a fighter within the Armenian irregular units against the Ottoman Empire. During the years of the Armenian Genocide, Dzarugian lost his mother during the death marches in the Syrian desert, and lived his childhood in the Armenian Orphanage of Aleppo. In 1921, he met his mother in Aleppo and moved to the local Haygazian Armenian School to receive his elemntary education. In the same year, his father was arrested and killed in the Marash prison for his participation in the patriotic movemnet against the Ottoman Empire.[2]
After completing his elementary education in Aleppo, Dzarugian moved to Beirut to complete his education at the newly-opened Armenian College. Among his teachers in the college were prominent Armenian educators such as Nikol Aghbalian and Levon Shant. After his graduation, Dzarugian started his career as a teacher in the Armenian schools of Aleppo and Beirut. Since 1950, he began to publish the "Nayiri" litrary weekly paper in Beirut.
His most prominent works "People without childhood" (Մանկութիւն Չունեցող Մարդիկ) and "Miraculous Aleppo" (Երազային Հալէպը) are auto-biographies dedicated to his childhood life in the orphanage of Aleppo.
Dzarugian visited Soviet Armenia for the first time in 1956. His impressions of this trip to the homeland was reflected in his book "Old dreams, new paths" (Հին Երազներ Նոր Ճամբաներ).