How to Pronounce Antranig Dzarugian
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Oct 04, 1913 Gürün, Turkey Died on 23 May 1989 (aged 75)
Armenian writer
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About Antranig Dzarugian
- Antranig Dzarugian (???????? ?????????; 1913 – 1989 in Paris) was an influential diasporan Armenian writer, poet, educator and journalist in the 20th century.Antranig Dzarugian (transliterated in Eastern Armenian as Andranik Tsarukian) was born in Gürün, Sivas Vilayet, Ottoman Empire in 1913.
- He was related to Chello Toros (1871–1893), one of the fighters of the Armenian irregular units against the Ottoman Empire.
- During the years of the Armenian Genocide, Dzarugian separated from his mother as a result of the death marches in the Syrian desert and spent his childhood in the Armenian Orphanage of Aleppo.
- In 1921, he met his mother in Aleppo and moved to the local Haygazian Armenian School to receive his elementary education.
- In the same year, his father was arrested and killed in the Marash prison for his participation in the patriotic movement against the Ottoman Empire.After completing his elementary schooling in Aleppo, Dzarugian moved to Beirut to complete his education at the newly opened Armenian College.
- Among his teachers in the college were prominent Armenian educators such as Nikol Aghbalian and Levon Shant.
- He became a dropout, and later started his career as a teacher in the Armenian schools of Aleppo and Beirut.
