Zabel Yesayan

Zabel Yesayan, née Hovhannessian, was born on 4 February 1878 in Scutari, on the Asian shore of Constantinople. She published her first prose poem in 1895 and left the same year to study literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne, where she married the painter Dikran Yesayan. The only woman on the list of arrests of 24 April 1915, she escaped it, made her way to Bulgaria and then to the Caucasus, and collected the accounts of refugees. Settled in Soviet Armenia in 1933, she taught at the University of Yerevan, was arrested on 27 June 1937 and died in internal exile, probably in 1943.

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