Hrand Nazariantz
| Hrand Nazariantz Հրանտ Նազարեանց |
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January 8, 1886 Üsküdar (Istanbul), Ottoman Empire |
| Died | January 25, 1962 (aged 76) Bari, Italy |
| Nationality | Ottoman |
| Education | Sorbonne University, Paris |
| Occupation | Journalist, poet, teacher |
| Years active | First half of 20th century |
| Notable credit(s) | Candidate to Nobel Prize |
| Spouse(s) | Maddalena de Cosmis (m.1913-1954), Maria Lucarelli (m.1954-1962) |
Hrand Nazariantz (Հրանտ Նազարեանց, January 8, 1886 – January 25, 1962) was an Ottoman Armenian poet and translator who lived most of his life in Italy.
Born in the Üsküdar district of Constantinople on January 8, 1886, he was the son of Diran Nazariantz, a businessman and member of the Armenian National Assembly from the district of Kumkapı, and Azniv Merametdjian. He attended the Berberian College from 1898, but he was expelled because of a relationship with another future writer, Mannig Berberian, daughter of Reteos Berberian, founder and owner of the college, and for asking her to marry him.
In 1902 he went to London to complete high school, and was hosted "by an ancient family of the English aristocracy." In the same year he completed the first draft of his collection Crucified Dreams.
In 1905 he matriculated at the Sorbonne in Paris and joined the Armenian liberation movement. In 1907 he went back to the Ottoman Empire because of his father's illness, to take over the management of the family business, established in the production of carpets and lace, which gave work to about two thousand workers, located in the districts of Üsküdar, Kumkapı, Kadıköy. This commitment continued along with his involvement in journalism and literary writing.
In 1908 he published the newspaper Surhantag (The Messenger) with Dikran Zaven, and in 1909 he founded the political and literary weekly Nor Hosank (New Wave), in collaboration with Karekin Gozikyan, called Yessalem, who was the founder of the first workers' union of the Armenian press in the Ottoman Empire (Matbaa İşçileri Meslek Birliği). He also works with fiction writer Rupen Zartarian and playwright Levon Shant in the magazine of art and controversy Baguin (Temple). Atom Yarjanian (Siamanto), an important Armenian journalist, wrote for this magazine.
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