SHAHAN SHAHNUR (Kerestetchyan Shahnur) was born on August 3, 1903, in Constantinople. An Armenian  writer. He studied at school of Skyutar in Constantinople, then in Perperyan high school. In 1922 he settled in Paris. Sh. Shahnur cooperated with the periodicals "Arev", "Apaga", "Anahit". His first novel "Retreat Without a Song" was published in 1929 in which he portrayed the degradation and alienation of Armenian people in a foreign environment, in 1933 the collection of short stories "Treason of Aralezes" was published. From 1930 till the end of the life he spend in hospital because of a serious illness.  

Since then, he began to write in French, signing his works Armen Lubin, at the same time he published journalistic and literary-critical articles in Armenian. In 1939, hospital memoirs “The Nighty transport” was published in "La Nouvelle Revue Francaise" (French periodical) which was later included in the collection of prose in French in 1955. S. Shahnur was awarded Rivaro prize in 1956. Shahan Shahnur’s collections “"Inappropriate searches” (1942), "The Furtive Passer-by" (1946), "Sacred Patience" (1951), “Fire with Fire” (1968) were published in French. The books “A pair of Red Copy-Books”  (1967), "The Fire Beside Me" (1973), include literary and journalistic works of Shahnur. He is also the author of "A Brief grammar and spelling of the Armenian language." (book 1-2, 1970). An integral part of the literary heritage of the Sh. Shahnur is his letters, most of which is stored in the Museum of Literature and Art.

Shahan Shahnur died on August 20, in 1974 in Paris. 

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

 
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