Vahe oshagan biography sample

  • Vahe Oshagan, who has died aged 78, was a critic, political activist, renegade poet and prolific novelist, professor of literature and iconoclast.
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  • Oshagan was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to the literary critic, Hagop Oshagan, and his wife, Araxie Astardjian Oshagan.

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    “Empire, Nation, Diaspora: Recovering the Voices of Vahé and Hagop Oshagan” at the MLA International Symposium, Lisbon, July 23-25.

    Posted onAugust 14, 2019byTaline Voskeritchian

    Lisbon was recently the site of two important events related to the literature of the Armenian diaspora. The first was a panel that convened at the International Symposium of the Modern Language Association (MLA), the major professional association for scholars … Continue reading →

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    A Mother’s Love (for futbol)

    Posted onJune 28, 2018byTaline Voskeritchian

    My mother’s love for futbol and the World Cup was boundless, timeless, and shameless. It crossed continents and generations; it brought us all together in enthusiasm and sometimes in disappointment; it created a kind of goofy, wild joy that was … Continu

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    Vahe Oshagan, 78, Pioneer Of a New Armenian Poetry

    Photo credit: Ara Oshagan

    ~~Today marks the thirteenth anniversary of the death of the Western Armenian poet and literary critic Vahé Oshagan, perhaps the most radical, innovative poet of his generation. A native of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, an exile who turned the condition into the source of a prolific body of work, Oshagan died in Philadelphia, from complications following heart surgery.  He was 78.  He was also my beloved maternal uncle.

    On this occasion, I’m re-posting  my translation of his Tebi Gyank (Toward life). The translation is followed by the obituaries in the New York Times and the Guardian.~~

    TOWARD LIFE

    This midday too
    god sits in death’s shade wipes the sweat off his forehead
    takes out the round gold watch
    looks
    thousands cross-legged in circles listen to fairy tales
    that swing from the tongues of tiny, suspended bells—
    this is our life
    dragging a torn fishing-net on our shoulder we walk the str

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    Vahe Oshagan; Poet Gave röst to the Armenian Experience

    Vahe Oshagan, 78, critically acclaimed Armenian-language poet. He was famed in Armenian intellectual circles for his eight volumes of poetry, six volumes of fiction and many short stories, plays and commentaries. Most of his works were written in Armenian but some have been translated into English. Some scholars saw him as the most important poet of his generation, particularly because he took the revolutionary step of rejecting the imposed formality of traditional Armenian poetry and instead writing in colloquial language. He was also respected for giving a voice to the Armenian diaspora. Born in stad, Bulgaria, Oshagan grew up in Cyprus and Jerusalem and earned a doctorate in comparative literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. He taught and wrote for many years in Lebanon, but moved to the U.S. during the advent of the civil war there and taught Armenian language, history and culture from 1976 to 1982 at the University of P