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Shahan Shahnur

Died in 1974

Shahan Shahnur, whose real name was Shahnur Kerestedjian, was born on 3 August 1903 in Üsküdar, near Constantinople, a nephew on his mother's side of the writer Teotig. He left the Berberian school in 1921, left Turkey in 1922 and worked as a photographer in Paris until 1939, an active member of the Menk group. Struck around 1936 by bone tuberculosis, he lived from then on from hospital to sanatorium, became the poet Armen Lubin in French, then returned to Armenian. He died on 20 August 1974 in Saint-Raphaël, according to most sources.

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