Vahram Alazan

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Vahram Alazan (Vahram Gabuzian, 1903, Van - 1966, Yerevan) was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist, the First Secretary of the Writers Union of Armenia from 1933 to 1936.

A survivor of Armenian Genocide, in 1915 he moved to Yerevan and since 1925 headed the Proletaric Writer's Association of Armenia. His poetic collection "Songs of Construction and Victory" became popular among the Armenian readers. Then he published "At the 60th horizon" novel. During the stalinist terror of 1937-1954 Alazan was prisoned in Siberia. In 1957 he published "Horizons" collection of philosophical poems. He was the founding director of the Perch Proshyan House-Museum in Ashtarak.^[1]

Books

"The Games of Summer", poems (1923),
"Poet's Heart", poems (1954)
"Northern Star", novel (1956),
"Memoires" (1960).

Sources

Alazan in Russian Literary Encyclopedia
Alazan in Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Vol. 1, Yerevan, 1990, pp. 73.

References

↑ Perch Proshyan House-Museum

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Name	Alazan, Vahram
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Short description	Armenian poet and writer
Date of birth	1903
Place of birth
Date of death	1966
Place of death

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