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Simon Simonian (Armenian: Սիմոն Սիմոնեան, 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1914, Ayntab - March 11, 1986, Beirut) was an Armenian intellectual who founded the literary and social Armenian periodical Spurk (Սփիւռք in Armenian).
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Simonian, the elder son of Ove from Sasun and Manush from Ayntab, was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. In 1921 his family emigrated to Aleppo. From 1930 to 1935 Simonian studied at the Antelias seminary. He headed the main archive of the Holy See of Cilicia, Lebanon. He authored many short stories and novels, as well as many textbooks on history and language. He was also the director of "Sevan" publishing house, where he printed about 600 books. In 1954 he visited Soviet Armenia, where he met the poet Silva Kaputikyan.
From 1936 he was the president of the Sasun Compatriotic Union.