Iskouhi Minas Explained

Iskouhi Minas (; 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). She studied at K. Polis and Kertz schools in Italy. Minas married Zhan Minasyan, the editor of the French periodical "Patri", together they had son Leone Minassian.^[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.^{[4] [5]} The Minas book "Aprel" (1930) depicts the life of writer Krikor Zohrab.

Minas died on 7 September 1951 in Paris.

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

Further reading

• Book: . Armenian Academy of Sciences . Arzumanyan . Makich . 7 . 554.
• Web site: Իսկուհի Մինաս . Iskouhi Minas . zarkfoundation.com . hy.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Իսկուհի Մինաս . zarkfoundation.com . hy.
2. Book: Leone Minassian 1905–1978 . Pescheria Nuova, Rovigo . 96212756.
3. Web site: Scientific Session "Armenian-French Literary-Historical Relations" . 28 August 2022 . ASPU.
4. Web site: 14 May 2021 . Հանդիպում թարգմանչի հետ – Հայաստանի Ազգային Գրադարան . Meeting with the translator . 28 August 2022 . National Library of Armenia . hy.
5. Web site: 1 July 2014 . ՆՎԱՐԴ ՎԱՐԴԱՆՅԱՆ « Հայաստանի Գրողների Միություն . Nvard Vardanyan, Union of Writers of Armenia . 28 August 2022 . hy.