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Zareh Yaldizciyan (10 May 1924 – 20 February 2007), Զարէհ Եալտըզճեան, better known by his pen name Zahrad (Armenian: Զահրատ), was a poet who lived in Turkey and wrote poems in the Armenian language.[1][2]

Zahrad
Born	Zareh Yaldizciyan (1924-05-10)10 May 1924 Constantinople, Turkey
Died	20 February 2007(2007-02-20) (aged 82) Istanbul, Turkey
Pen name	Zahrad Զահրատ
Occupation	Poet
Language	Armenian

Biography

Of Armenian descent, Zahrad was born in the Nişantaşı district of Istanbul, Turkey.[3] His father, Movses, had been a jurist, adviser, and translator for the Ottoman Foreign Ministry.[3] However, he had lost his father at the age of three.[4] His mother, Ankine, was from the district of Samatya. Zahrad grew up with his maternal grandfather Levon Vartanyan.[3]

In 1942 he graduated from Özel Pangaltı Ermeni Lisesi, the local Mechitarist Armenian lyceum.[4][5] He attended the Faculty University of Medicine in Istanbul but left in order to work.[4][5] Due to the fear that his family wouldn't appreciate the fact that he wanted to be a poet, he changed his pen name to "Zahrad". In November 1963, he married Anayis Antreasian.[3]

Legacy

Levon Ananyan, the president of the Writers Union of Armenia, characterized Zahrad as "the huge oak tree of diasporan poetry, whose literary heritage had a deep and stable influence upon modern poetry of not only the diaspora, but also Armenia."[6][7] Writer and journalist Rober Haddeciyan is quoted as saying, "all the roads taken by our poems don't lead to Rome, but to Zahrad".[3] His poetry has been translated into 22 languages.[8]

President of Armenia Robert Kocharian has awarded Zahrad with the Movses Khorenatsi medal for his contribution to Armenian literature and culture.[9]

Works

• «Մեծ քաղաքը» (Big City, Istanbul, 1960)
• «Գունաւոր սահմաններ» (Colored Borders, Istanbul, 1968)
• «Բարի Երկինք» (Kind Sky, Istanbul, 1971)
• «Կանանչ հող» (Green Soil, Paris, 1976)
• «Մէկ քարով երկու գարուն» (Two Springs with One Stone, Istanbul, 1989)
• «Մաղ մը ջուր» (A Sieve of Water, Istanbul, 1995)
• «Ծայրը ծայրին» (A Tight Fit, Istanbul, 2001)
• «Ջուրը պատէն վեր» (Water Up the Wall, Istanbul, 2004)[4]
• «Մարկոս եւ Մարկոս» (Marc and Marc, ?, ?)

Notes and references

На других языках

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- [en] Zahrad

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[fr] Zahrad

Zareh Yaldızcıyan dit Zahrad (en arménien : Զահրատ,, né à Constantinople en 1924, 10 mai - mort la même ville (devenue Istanbul), le 20 février 2007) est un poète turc de culture arménienne. Ses œuvres ont été traduites dans vingt-deux langues.

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[ru] Захрад

Захрад (з.-арм. Զահրատ, тур. Zahrad, при рождении Зарех Ялдызджян з.-арм. Զարեհ Յալտըզճեան, тур. Zareh Yaldızcıyan; 10 мая 1924 года, Константинополь — 20 февраля 2007 года, Стамбул) — западноармянский поэт и писатель.

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