Name Kegham Parseghian Died 1915, Ayas, Turkey | Role Writer | |
Born 1883Constantinople, Ottoman Turkey ( 1883 ) Occupation Journalist, writer, teacher, and political activist. | ||
Kegham Parseghian (Գեղամ Բարսեղեան) (1883, Constantinople, Ottoman Turkey – 1915 Ayas, Ottoman Turkey), was a famed Armenian writer, columnist, publicist, teacher, editor, and journalist.
Biography
Kegham Parseghian was born in the Gedik Pasa district of Constantinople. He attended to local Mesrobian school and continued his studies at the Getronagan Varjaran (Central Lyceum) until 1896. After spending a year in Paris, he began to write his first literary pieces in many Armenian periodicals and newspaper of the time. He then became a chief columnist and editor of the Surhantag (Սուրհանդակ) and Azadamard (Ազատամարտ, 1909-1915) newspapers. He was one of the editors of the literary review Aztag (Ազդակ, 1908-1909). He was one of the founding members of the short lived literary monthly Mehian (Մեհեան, 1914) and worked alongside famed writers such as Gostan Zarian, Daniel Varujan, Hagop Oshagan, Hrand Nazariantz and Aharon Dadurian.
A complete collection of his works was published in 1931 by the Society of Friends of Martyred Writers in Paris.
On April 24, 1915, Parseghian was apprehended and taken to Ayas near Ankara where he was killed.