2009 MARKS DANIEL VARUZHAN’S 125TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

PanARMENIAN.Net
06.11.2009 15:19 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 2009 marks the 125th birthday anniversary of
outstanding Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan. A number of events will
be held on the occasion throughout Armenia and abroad.

Deputy head of modern and folk art at RA Ministry of Culture Karo
Vardanyan commented on the events to be held, "The events will
feature a performance at Gabriel Sundukyan Theater, an exposition
at the Literature and Arts Museum and publication of collection of
Varuzhan’s poems."

Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan heads the state organizational
committee.

"A conference dedicated to Daniel Varuzhan will be held in Yerevan
State University on November 11. We also plan to publish a book with
the assistance of foreign organizations," said Zhenya Azizyan, head
of all-Armenian projects at Diaspora Ministry.

Daniel Varuzhan was born in Brgnik (a village in Sebastia) in 1884.

>From 1896 to 1902 he attended the school of Mkhitarist fathers. He
pursued his higher education at University of Ghent, Belgium, where
he studied economics and social sciences. Then he returned to his
native village and taught Armenian in a school. Varuzhan was among the
intellectuals arrested by the Turkish police on the night of April 24,
1915. He was deported to Cankiri and murdered.