Antranig Dzarougian
Translated by Jennifer Manoukian
Translator's Note: The following passages are taken from Antranig Dzarougian’s 1980 memoir, Ethereal Aleppo ՚(«Երազային Հալէպը»). One of the foremost writers and editors in the Armenian Diaspora, Dzarougian lived and worked in the Armenian communities of Syria and Lebanon. Born in 1913 in the Ottoman town of Gurin (modern Gürün), Dzarougian was rescued during the massacres and brought to Aleppo, where he was raised in an Armenian orphanage. He is best known for a memoir about that period in his life, People without a Childhood («Մանկութիւն չունեցող մարդիկ»),(*) as well as for his long poem, Letter to Yerevan («Թուղթ առ Երեւան»), and for the various pieces of prose and poetry published in Nayiri, the Aleppo-based, and later Beirut-based, literary journal that he founded and edited.
