DIASPORAN ARMENIAN WRITER AND PUBLICIST HAROUTIUN KAZANJIAN (GEGHARD) PASSES AWAY
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 16 2006
ISTANBUL, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Prominent Diasporan
Armenian intellectual, writer and publicist, many-years editor of the
“Akos,” “Bzhishk” and “Bagin” periodicals Haroutiun Kazanjian with
Geghard pen name passed away on March 14 in France. The Istanbul
“Marmara” daily informs about this, quoting information of the
Hamazgayin (all-national) central administration.
Haroutiun Kazanjian was born in 1928 in Beirut. He got pre-education
at the Surb Nshan national seminary, then, at the Nshan Palamjian
academy. In 1954 he graduated from the French University of Beirut,
getting speciality of a dentist-surgeon. In 1949-1954 he edited the
“Akos” daily, and has published the “Bzhishk” monthly since 1955,
at the same time being a part of the editorial staff of the “Bagin”
literary monthly. He contributed a number of Diasporan Armenian
newspapers, publishing poems, fables, stories amd publicistic articles
in them.
Haroutiun Kazanjian’s first books are “Under Strangers’ Roof” and
“The Seine” collecions of stories. Collections of poems and fables
were published as well.