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A Cultural Milstone: The entire oeuvre of Hagop Oshagan is now on-line.

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Taline Voskeritchian

Below is the press release of the Gulbenkian Foundation, which circulated on September 10: The entire oeuvre of Hagop Oshagan, one of the giants of Western Armenian Literature, is now online and easily accessible to all, free of charge. The … Continue reading →

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Oshagan’s “Remnants”–the Cyprus years

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Taline Voskeritchian

Hagop Oshagan wrote Mnatsortats, whose English translation by G.M.Goshgarian has just been released, in Cyprus between 1926 and 1934.  These years were Oshagan’s most prolific as a novelist.  It was in Cyprus, in a house at the edge of town, … Continue reading →

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Oshagan in English…

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Taline Voskeritchian

Gomidas Institute has announced the publication of a section from Hagop Oshagan’s novel, Մնացորդաց (Remnants).  The translation is by G.M.Goshgarian who won a PEN Translation Award for his work while it was still in manuscript form. The volume has an … Continue reading →

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Mnatsortats in English–at last

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Taline Voskeritchian

Yes, that’s the most immediate and authentic response which a friend posted on FB:  “At last, at last,” he wrote.  Indeed, some eighty years after its writing, Hagop Oshagan’s Mnatsortats has seen the light of day in a magnificent translation … Continue reading →

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Commemorating Hagop Oshagan’s death (1883-1948)

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~The Armenian novelist and literary critic Hagop Oshagan died in Aleppo, Syria, sixty-five years ago today.  His shrine is in the Christian cemetery of the city, and a community landmark.  Oshagan had gone to Aleppo for a jubilee honoring his … Continue reading →

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From my files: Hagop Oshagan: December 9, 1883-February 17, 1948

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Taline Voskeritchian

The Armenian novelist, literary critic, dramatist, and historian of literature Hagop Oshagan (1883-1948) stands at the juncture where Western Armenian culture ends and that of the Armenian diaspora begins. His life and literary output straddle the rural world of his … Continue reading →

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