Iskouhi Minas
Iskouhi Minas (Armenian: Իսկուհի Մինաս; 2 October 1884 – 7 September 1951) also known as Iskuhi Minas, and Iskouhi Minasyan, was a French novelist and poet.[1]
Biography
[edit]Iskouhi Minas was born on 2 October 1884, in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present-day Istanbul, Turkey).[1] She studied at K. Polis and Kertz schools in Italy.[1] Minas married Zhan Minasyan, the editor of the French periodical "Patri", together they had son Leone Minassian.[1][2]
She spoke French, Italian, and Latin languages.[3] Minas wrote only in French, and was published by the French press; however many of her books were later translated to Armenian by Daniel Varoujan, Krikor Zohrab, and Zabel Yesayan and published by the Armenian press.[1][4][5] The Minas book "Aprel" (1930) depicts the life of writer Krikor Zohrab.[1]
Minas died on 7 September 1951 in Paris.[1]
Publications
[edit]- "Riding", 1913
- "Inward Hours", 1914
- "Pearls of Venice", 1914
- "Novels and Tales", 1918, Paris
- "Night Voices", 1925
- "Antique flowers", 1925
- "The Italian lampshade", 1928.
- "Whatever Dies", novel, 1928
- "Live", 1930
- "Proud Tribes", 1933
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Իսկուհի Մինաս". zarkfoundation.com (in Armenian).
- ^ Leone Minassian 1905–1978. Pescheria Nuova, Rovigo. LCCN 96212756.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Scientific Session "Armenian-French Literary-Historical Relations"". ASPU. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "Հանդիպում թարգմանչի հետ – Հայաստանի Ազգային Գրադարան" [Meeting with the translator]. National Library of Armenia (in Armenian). 14 May 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "ՆՎԱՐԴ ՎԱՐԴԱՆՅԱՆ « Հայաստանի Գրողների Միություն" [Nvard Vardanyan, Union of Writers of Armenia] (in Armenian). 1 July 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
Further reading
[edit]- Arzumanyan, Makich (ed.). Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. Armenian Academy of Sciences. p. 554.
- "Իսկուհի Մինաս" [Iskouhi Minas]. zarkfoundation.com (in Armenian).
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