Iskouhi Minas

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Iskouhi Minas (Armenian: Իսկուհի Մինաս; 2 October 1884 – 7 September 1951) also known as Iskuhi Minas, and Iskouhi Minasyan, was a French novelist and poet.[1]

Biography

Iskouhi Minas was born on 2 October 1884, in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present-day Istanbul, Turkey).[1] She studied at K. Polis and Kertz schools in Italy.[1] Minas married Zhan Minasyan, the editor of the French periodical "Patri", together they had son Leone Minassian.[1][2]

She spoke French, Italian, and Latin languages.[3] Minas wrote only in French, and was published by the French press; however many of her books were later translated to Armenian by Daniel Varoujan, Krikor Zohrab, and Zabel Yesayan and published by the Armenian press.[1][4][5] The Minas book "Aprel" (1930) depicts the life of writer Krikor Zohrab.[1]

Minas died on 7 September 1951 in Paris.[1]

Publications

  • "Riding", 1913
  • "Inward Hours", 1914
  • "Pearls of Venice", 1914
  • "Novels and Tales", 1918, Paris
  • "Night Voices", 1925
  • "Antique flowers", 1925
  • "The Italian lampshade", 1928.
  • "Whatever Dies", novel, 1928
  • "Live", 1930
  • "Proud Tribes", 1933

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