Свазлян Вержине
| Свазлян Вержине | |
| Svazlian Verjine | |
| Другие имена: | Свазлиян Вержинэ, Свазлиян Верджинэ |
| На английском: | Svazlian Verjine |
| Дата рождения: | 1934 |
| Место рождения: | Александрия, Египет |
| Краткая информация: Писательница, автор монографии «Геноцид армян и историческая память народа» | |
Биография
ЕРЕВАН, 21 АПРЕЛЯ, НОЯН ТАПАН - АРМЯНЕ СЕГОДНЯ.
Президент РА Роберт Кочарян 15 апреля подписал указ о присуждении премий лицам, внесшим в 2005 году значительный вклад в дело признания Геноцида армян.
Как сообщают "НОЯН ТАПАН" из пресс-службы президента РА, премий удостоены Вержине Свазлян за монографию "Геноцид армян и историческая память народа" и Эдгар Хильзенрат из Германии за роман "Сказка последней мысли".
Свазлиян Верджинэ
Verjine Svazlian
Verjine Svazlian, ethnographer and folklorist, was born in 1934 in Alexandria (Egypt) in the family of the writer and public man Karnik Svazlian, himself an eye-witness survivor of Turkish tyranny.
In 1947, she has been repatriated with her parents to the Motherland, Armenia.
In 1956, she has graduated with honours from the Department of the Armenian Language and Literature of the Kh. Abovian State Pedagogical Institute.
Beginning from the nineteen fifties, she has, on her own initiative, started to write down and thereby saved from a total loss the various folklore creations communicated by the repatriates forcibly deported from Western Armenia, Cilicia and the Armenian-inhabited provinces of Anatolia, as well as the narrated memoirs of the eye-witness survivors of the Armenian Genocide.
Starting from 1958, she has worked at the M. Abeghian Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. During her post-graduate studies, she has been a M. Abeghian grant-aided student.
From 1961, she has worked at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and, from 1996, also at the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.
She has maintained her Candidate thesis in 1965 and her thesis for a Doctor's Degree in 1995.
She has participated in republican and international conferences, discoursing upon folklore, ethnography and the Armenian Action.
She is also the author of a number of scientific papers published in the Motherland and in the Armenian Diaspora.
BELGE" PUBLISHING HOUSE PUBLISHES VERJINE SVAZLIAN'S "THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND HISTORICAL MEMORY" BOOK IN TURKISH
Noyan Tapan Armenians Today Nov 3 2005
ISTANBUL, NOVEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The "Belge" publishing houses published recently Verjine Svazlian's "The Armenian Genocide and Historical Memory" book in Turkish. The translator is Emine Demir.
Verjine Svazlian is one of those historians who gathers testimonies of those survived the 1915 Genocide, estimating those in their common system.
The main two parts of the book are "The typological peculiarities of the testimonies of eyewitness survivors," "The course of the Armenian Genocide according to the testimonies of the eyewitness survivors."
Testimonies and studies are followed by summaries in Turkish, French, German, English, Russian and Armenian. Then photographs of eyewitness survivors come.
According to the Istanbul "Marmara" daily, publishers mention in the book preface that the 1915 events left an unforgettable trace in memories. They also mention that there is a necessity of carrying out such a work in Turkey.
There are many testimonies in Turkey as well: both of participants of those events and ones helped those suffered, stories which were passed by the first generation to the second and third ones: "Those memories wait for their historians who will study them."
The "Belge" publishing house published one of books of an American Armenian famous writer Peter Balakian as well: "Black Dog of Fate" in which the author tells a riveting narrative about his grandmother and family of many members survived the 1915 Genocide.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
VERJINE SVAZLIAN, Вержинэ Свазлиян ethnographer and folklorist, was born in 1934 in Alexandria (Egypt) in the family of the writer and public man, Karnik Svazlian, himself an eyewitness survivor of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1947, she was repatriated with her parents to the Motherland, Armenia.
In 1956, she graduated with honors from the Department of Armenian Language and Literature of the Kh. Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University.
Beginning from 1955, she, on her own initiative, started to write down and thereby saved from total loss the various folklore relics communicated in different dialects by the repatriates forcibly deported from Western Armenia, Cilicia and Anatolia, as well as the memoirs and the songs of historical character narrated by the eyewitness survivors of the Armenian Genocide.
From 1958, she started to work at the M. Abeghian Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. During her post-graduate studies, she has been a M. Abeghian grant-aided student (under the scientific leadership of the Academician K. Melik-Ohandjanian).
Beginning from 1961 up to the present time she is working at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and, from 1996, also at the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.
She has maintained her Candidate thesis in 1965 and her thesis for a Doctor’s degree in 1995.
She has participated in a number of republican and international conferences, discoursing upon folklore, ethnography and the Armenian Case.
She is also the author of a number of scientific papers published in the Motherland and in the Diaspora.
Publications: Sarkis Haykuni. Kyankn u gordse [Sarkis Haykuni. Life and Work]. ‘Hay asgagrutyun ev banahyusutyun’ [‘Armenian Ethnography and Folklore’]. Vol. 4. Yerevan, Publishing House of the AS ASSR, 1973 (in Armenian).
Artsakh-Ootik. ‘Hay zhoghovrdakan hekiatner’ [‘Armenian Folk Tales’]. Vol. 6. Yerevan, Publishing House of the AS ASSR, 1973 (in Armenian).
Taron-Turuberan. ‘Hay zhoghovrdakan hekiatner’ [‘Armenian Folk Tales’]. Vol. 12. Yerevan, Publishing House of the AS ASSR, 1984 (in Armenian).
Moussa Ler [Moussa Dagh]. ‘Hay asgagrutyun ev banahyusutyun’ [‘Armenian Ethnography and Folklore’]. Vol. 16. Yerevan, Publishing House of the AS ASSR, 1984 (in Armenian).
Kilikia. Arevmtahayots banavor avandutyune [Cilicia. The Oral Tradition of the Western Armenians]. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 1994 (in Armenian).
Meds Yeghern. Arevmtahayots banavor vkayutyunner [The Great Genocide. Oral Evidences of the Western Armenians]. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 1995 (in Armenian).
Meds Yegherne arevmtahayots hooshapatumnerum ev toorkalezu ergerum [The Great Genocide in the Memoirs and Turkish-Language Songs of the Western Armenians]. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 1997 (in Armenian).
Genotsid v vospominaniiakh i turkoiazychnikh pesniakh zapadnykh armian [The Genocide in the Memoirs and Turkish-Language Songs of the Western Armenians]. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 1997 (in Russian).
Van-Vaspourakan. ‘Hay zhoghovrdakan hekiatner’ [‘Armenian Folk Tales’]. Vol. 15. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 1998 (in Armenian).
The Armenian Genocide in the Memoirs and Turkish-Language Songs of the Eyewitness Survivors. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 1999.
Bolsahayots banahyusutyune [The Oral Tradition of the Armenians of Constantinople]. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 2000 (in Armenian).
Hayots tseghaspanutyun. Akanates veraproghneri vkayutyunner [The Armenian Genocide. Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors]. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 2000 (in Armenian).
Hayots tseghaspanutyune ev patmakan hishoghutyune [The Armenian Genocide and Historical Memory]. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 2003 (in Armenian).
The Armenian Genocide and Historical Memory. Yerevan, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, 2004.
Honors: In 1985, she was awarded the "Praise Certificate" of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.
In 1985, the General Compatriotic Union "Moussa Dagh" granted her the Gold Medal of "Honorable Denizen of Moussa Dagh."
In 1992, the Historico-Cultural Union "Zeytoun" awarded her the title of "Honorable Denizen of Zeytoun."
In 1999, the Compatriotic Union "Van-Vaspourakan" awarded her the title of "Honorable Denizen of Vaspourakan."
On the 24th of April, 2000, on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, she was awarded the "Diploma of Honor of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia for her scientific investigations conducted in the field of the History of the Armenian Problem, the Armenian Genocide and the Diasporan Armenians."
In 2002, she was awarded the Diasporan literary-philological prize "Haykashen Ouzounian" of the Tekeyan Cultural Union.
On the 24th of April, 2003, the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and the International Committee "The Veritables for the Armenians" granted her the "Fridtjof Nansen’s Memorial Medal for the scientific and public activity directed toward the condemnation of the Armenian Genocide and toward the establishment of philanthropic principles."
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