Heranush (Nargiz) Arshagian (Armenian: Հերանուշ (Նարգիզ) Արշակեան) (July 28, 1887 in

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– 1905 in

, Ottoman Empire) was an Ottoman Armenian poet.

Life

Heranush Arshagian was born in the

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district of Constantinople in 1887. Her father Hagop, who died when she was 3, was a prominent social activist in the Armenian community. When Arshagian turned 10 years old, she entered the

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French girls school. After studying there for a year and a half, Arshagian continued her studies at the Makruhian Armenian School in the

district. Arshagian's teachers were highly impressed by her essays and writings, but her days as a student were interrupted when her doctors suggested that she lived outside of the city. Arshagian moved to a farm on the outskirts of

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, where she derived inspiration from the natural setting. It was during those years that Arshagian began to write poetry. She writes in her memoirs, "''The fields are green. Afar I can see

with her ever-flowing suburbs. Beyond that are the hills and mountains covered in fog and the

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so very beautiful, so very trembling under the fiery rays of the sun...''" Arshagian died in 1905 at the age of 18.

Poetry

She wrote a series of lyrical poems, novels, and short stories which were published after the author's death in Hayganush Mark's ''Tsaghig'' (Flower) newspaper. In 1910

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, who was in constant contact with Heranush Arshagian, published a book about her life and works in Constantinople.

, Հերանոյշ Արշակեան: Իր կեանքը եւ բանաստեղծութիւնները, Constantinople, Tēr-Nersēsean, 1910

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