Hovhannes Tumanyan (February 19, 1869 - March 23, 1923), is considered to be one of the greatest
ArmenianThe Armenians are a nation and ethnic group which originated in the Caucasus and the Armenian Highland. It is estimated that there are 8 million Armenians around the world. There is a large concentration of Armenians in the Caucasus, especially in Armenia, and there is a significant presence in...
poets and writers. His work was mostly written in
tragicTragedy is a form of art based on human suffering that, paradoxically, offers its audience pleasure...
form, often centering on the harsh lives of villagers in the Lori region.
Tumanyan's inspiration for his writing came considerably from his parents. He was born in the village of
DseghDsegh is a town in the Lori Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in honor of writer Hovhannes Tumanyan, a native of the town.- References :* – World-Gazetteer.com...
in the Province of Lori,
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. With his father was an offspring of an Armenian princely family of Tumanian (branch of the Mamikonians) and the village's priest and his mother an avid storyteller with a particular interest in fables, Tumanyan had incorporated many of the themes from his mother's stories and his father's preachings into his writings.
Tumanyan is usually regarded in Armenian circles as "All-Armenian poet".
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Hovhannes Tumanyan (February 19, 1869 - March 23, 1923), is considered to be one of the greatest
ArmenianThe Armenians are a nation and ethnic group which originated in the Caucasus and the Armenian Highland. It is estimated that there are 8 million Armenians around the world. There is a large concentration of Armenians in the Caucasus, especially in Armenia, and there is a significant presence in...
poets and writers. His work was mostly written in
tragicTragedy is a form of art based on human suffering that, paradoxically, offers its audience pleasure...
form, often centering on the harsh lives of villagers in the Lori region.
Tumanyan's inspiration for his writing came considerably from his parents. He was born in the village of
DseghDsegh is a town in the Lori Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in honor of writer Hovhannes Tumanyan, a native of the town.- References :* – World-Gazetteer.com...
in the Province of Lori,
ArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
. With his father was an offspring of an Armenian princely family of Tumanian (branch of the Mamikonians) and the village's priest and his mother an avid storyteller with a particular interest in fables, Tumanyan had incorporated many of the themes from his mother's stories and his father's preachings into his writings.
Tumanyan is usually regarded in Armenian circles as "All-Armenian poet". He earned this title when the
Catholicos of ArmeniaThe Catholicos of All Armenians is the Chief bishop of Armenia's national church, the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches that do not accept the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon. The first Catholicos of All Armenians was Saint Gregory the Illuminator...
had ordered that Armenian refugees from the west not enter certain areas of his church and house, since he is considered to be "The Catholicos of all Armenians". Tumanyan in response decried that decision claiming that the refugees could seek relief in the Catholicos' quarters under order of "The Poet of all Armenians".
He created lyrics, fables, epic poems and translations into Armenian of Byron, Goethe and Pushkin.
Literary works
- Akhtamar
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- Almast
- Anoush (1890 - publish 1892)
- David of Sassoun
- Neso's Steam Bath
- The Old Fight
- Toward the Unknown
- Parvana
- Requiem (Hokehankisd)
- The Capture of Tmpkabert (Tmpgaperti Aroume)
- The Construction of the Railway
- The Dove Monastery
- The Lamp of the Illuminator
Films
The following films were adapted from Hovhannes Tumanyan's works
- Anush, 1931 (dir. Ivan Perestiani
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)
See also
- Vernatun
"Vernatun" was an Armenian literary study group , which was established in 1899 in the forth floor of #44 Behbutov street in Tiflis. With some pauses the group live until 1908. The leader of "Vernatun was Hovhannes Tumanyan...
- Armenian literature
-Early literature:Armenian literature begins about 406 with the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop.Isaac, the Catholicos of Armenia, formed a school of translators who were sent to Edessa, Athens, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea in Cappadocia, and elsewhere, to procure...
- Armenians in Georgia
Armenians in Georgia are ethnic Armenians living within the country of Georgia . Armenians are the second largest ethnic minority in Georgia at about 6% of the population. The Armenian community is mostly concentrated in the capital Tbilisi and the Samtskhe-Javakheti region, which borders Armenia...
- Armenians in Tbilisi
Armenians in Tbilisi are ethnic Armenians living within the city of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia). Armenians are the second largest ethnic minority in Tbilisi at 7.6% of the population. Armenians form the majority in this city until the middle of XIX century. Official Georgian statistics put...
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