MAHARI (ACHEMYAN) GURGEN  was born on August 1, in 1903 in Van . An Armenian writer. Honored Cultural Worker of ASSR in 1965. From 1915 he was in the orphanages in Dilidjan and Yerevan. He studied in YSU.  In 1936 Gurgen Mahari wrongly convicted and exiled (until 1947, the second time from 1949 to 1954) to Siberia. He is the author of lyrical poems, ballads and poems ("Titanic" (1924), "Two Poems" (1926), "Poplars" (1927)), collections of stories ("About love, Jealousy and Gardeners of  Nice" (1929), "The zigzags "(1931)).

In 1930, the first three books of his biographical trilogy were published - "Childhood and adolescence", and in 1956, the third book "On the threshold of youth". Mahari’s collections of poems "Winepress" (1959), short stories "Sound of Silence" (1962) and the novel "Burning Orchards" (1966) were published, where he depicts the life of the Armenians of Van before the First World War (1914-1918) during the deportation and exile. Mahari is also the author of a book of memoirs "Charents-name" (1968). Documentary story "Barbed wire in bloom" depicts the life of people in Siberian camps during the Soviet era.

Gurgen Mahari died in on July 16, 1969, in  Palanga (Lithuania) and is buried in Yerevan. 

Source- Source - "Who is Who. The Armenians" Encyclopedia, Volume I, chief-editor Hovh. Ayvazyan, Yerevan, 2007.

 
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