IRANIAN ARMENIAN WRITER R.BEN PASSES AWAY
TEHRAN, December 3 (Noyan Tapan). Ruben Hovhannisian, Iranian Armenian
poet and prosaist, known to the literary world as R.Ben passed
away. NT was informed about this by the Marmara Istanbul daily
newspaper.
R.Ben was born in 1916 in Tehran where he attended the Haykazian
college, then Persian schools. Being an architect by speciality, he
held a position in the Iran National Oil Company for many years.
R.Ben was an active member of the “Nor Edge” (“New Page”) literary
society, which has been engaged in publishing starting from 1935. 26
issues of “Nor Edge” were released owing to Ruben Hovhannisian’s
efforts by 2003. The writer closely knew and worked with H.Falian,
Dev, Vostanik, G.Khanents, Z.Mirzoyan and a number of other writers
who gave new spirit to Iranian Armenian literature with their
publications in “Nor Edge.”
R.Ben died on November 14 in Tehran.