WRITER

Hovhannes Tumanyan

1869 - 1923

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Hovhannes Tumanyan (Armenian: Հովհաննես Թումանյան, classical spelling: Յովհաննէս Թումանեան, February 19 [O.S. February 7] 1869 – March 23, 1923) was an Armenian poet, writer, translator, and literary and public activist. He is the national poet of Armenia. Tumanyan wrote poems, quatrains, ballads, novels, fables, and critical and journalistic articles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hovhannes Tumanyan has received more than 218,113 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Hovhannes Tumanyan is the 1,454th most popular writer (down from 1,371st in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Armenia (down from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Armenian Writer.

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.04

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  • 5.26

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Notable Works

Pʻarwana
1960
Barekendaně
Folklore, Tales
Armenian folk tale retold for children.
1988
Shunn u katun
Coloring books, Modern Armenian language, Folklore
Armenian folk tale retold for children.
2001
Tʻmkaberdi aṛumě
1904
Tērn u tsaṛan
1985
Hekʻiatʻner
1978

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hovhannes Tumanyan ranks 1,454 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry Steel Olcott, Arnold van Gennep, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Jules Laforgue, Sławomir Mrożek, and Naftali Herz Imber. After him are Maryse Condé, Paul Rée, Elizabeth George, Phrynichus, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, and Winifred Wagner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Hovhannes Tumanyan ranks 45. Before him are Gaetano Bresci, Mary Mallon, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Richard Abegg, Élie Cartan, and Else Lasker-Schüler. After him are Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Giulio Douhet, Hjalmar Söderberg, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, Liane de Pougy, and Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1923, Hovhannes Tumanyan ranks 35. Before him are Ernst Troeltsch, Édouard Stephan, Maurice Barrès, Edward W. Morley, Edith Södergran, and Théophile Steinlen. After him are Bonar Law, Georg Luger, Charles Dupuy, Zhang Xun, Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, and Albert Leo Schlageter.

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In Armenia

Among people born in Armenia, Hovhannes Tumanyan ranks 19 out of 163. Before him are Vahagn Khachaturyan (1959), Ashot I of Armenia (820), Armen Sarkissian (1953), Vologases V (130), Servatius of Tongeren (400), and Sebeos (700). After him are Tigranes III (-100), Armen Dzhigarkhanyan (1935), Djivan Gasparyan (1928), Karekin II (1951), Nikol Pashinyan (1975), and Arno Babajanian (1921).

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Among WRITERS In Armenia

Among writers born in Armenia, Hovhannes Tumanyan ranks 2. Before him are Khachatur Abovian (1805). After him are Silva Kaputikyan (1919), Avetik Isahakyan (1875), Hovhannes Shiraz (1914), Shushanik Kurghinian (1876), Paruyr Sevak (1924), Axel Bakunts (1899), Hamo Sahyan (1914), Gevorg Emin (1919), Sarmad Kashani (1590), and Narine Abgaryan (1971).

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