Zabel yesayan biography definition

Zabel Yessayan

WRITING - HER LIFE’S MISSION

Writers in the 20th century were destroyed by either The Genocide of 1915 or the Stalin Purge that began in 1937.

Zabel Yessayan was silenced in the latter.

Zabel Yessayan (alternate spellings: Yessaian, Esayan, Essayan), a gifted novelist who was considered the female counterpart to Krikor Zohrab, was born in Scutari, a district of Constantinople.

Zabel yesayan biography definition

From an early age, she wanted to be a writer and as early as age 17 she published a short piece in a literary magazine. She obtained higher education in Paris where she worked her way through the Sorbonne by revising a French-Armenian dictionary and by writing articles and short stories for French and Armenian magazines.

She returned to Constantinople at the age of 30 to enjoy an active literary life, well recognized for her talent. The Young Turks ranked her with Zohrab, Zartarian, Siamanto and Varoujan and placed her name – the only female writer – on the