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WRITER

Shushanik Kurghinian

1876 - 1927

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Shushanik Kurghinian (Armenian: Շուշանիկ Կուրղինյան; née Popoljian; 18 August 1876 – 24 November 1927) was an Armenian writer who became a catalyst in the development of socialist and feminist poetry. She is described as having "given a voice to the voiceless" and herself saw her role as a poet as "profoundly political". Her first poem was published in 1899 in Taraz, and in 1900 her first short story appeared in the journal Aghbyur. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shushanik Kurghinian has received more than 22,142 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Shushanik Kurghinian is the 3,627th most popular writer (up from 4,103rd in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Armenia and the 7th most popular Armenian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shushanik Kurghinian ranks 3,627 out of 5,755. Before her are Maurice Scève, Farag Foda, Alberto Hurtado, Kerstin Ekman, Jules Barbier, and Radclyffe Hall. After her are Louise Weiss, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Castor of Rhodes, Bertus Aafjes, Nikola Vaptsarov, and Justus Jonas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Shushanik Kurghinian ranks 114. Before her are Sverre Hassel, Bart van der Leck, Rosalia Zemlyachka, Aaron Aaronsohn, Hrachia Acharian, and Óscar R. Benavides. After her are Safiya Zaghloul, Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Joseph M. Schenck, Tiburcio Carías Andino, Konstantinos Demertzis, and Solomon Lozovsky. Among people deceased in 1927, Shushanik Kurghinian ranks 86. Before her are Paul César Helleu, Hermann Obrist, Miguel Pro, János Csernoch, Charles Warren, and Kristian Prestrud. After her are Francis Lane, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, William Burnside, Sascha Schneider, Matilde Serao, and David Arellano.

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In Armenia

Among people born in Armenia, Shushanik Kurghinian ranks 48 out of 147. Before her are Ghazar Parpetsi (442), Mariam Aslamazian (1907), Levon Aronian (1982), Vardan Areveltsi (1198), Hovhannes Shiraz (1914), and Paruyr Sevak (1924). After her are Minas Avetisyan (1928), Sergey Merkurov (1881), Tigran Sargsyan (1962), Hayko (1977), Regina Ghazaryan (1915), and Vazgen Manukyan (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Armenia

Among writers born in Armenia, Shushanik Kurghinian ranks 7. Before her are Khachatur Abovian (1805), Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869), Silva Kaputikyan (1919), Avetik Isahakyan (1875), Hovhannes Shiraz (1914), and Paruyr Sevak (1924). After her are Axel Bakunts (1899), Hamo Sahyan (1914), Gevorg Emin (1919), Mariam Petrosyan (1969), and Sipan Shiraz (1967).

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