Kégham Atmadjian Explained

Kégham Atmadjian
Other Names:Sema
Birth Name:Kegham Mihrani Atmadjian
Birth Date:18 November 1910
Birth Place:Bafra, Ottoman Empire
Death Place:France
Death Cause:Killed in action
Occupation:poet and editor
Nationality:French-Armenian
Partner:Emma Jeanne Charlotte Le Chevalier

Kegham Mihrani Atmadjian (Armenian: Գեղամ Միհրանի Աթմաճյան, literary pseudonym Sema, November 18, 1910 – May 18, 1940) was a French-Armenian poet and editor.

Biography

Being a survivor of the Armenian genocide, Atmadjian lived in orphanages in Turkey and Aleppo. In 1929 he moved to Paris, where he published the Armenian cultural magazine "Jank" (Effort), together with Missak Manouchian. In 1935–1937 he published another Armenian magazine, "Mshaguyt" (Culture), with Bedros Zaroyan. He was the author of poems, plays, short stories, and articles. In 1940 he was killed during his service in the French army at the outbreak of World War II. His sister Marie Atmadjian, a poet by herself, wrote memoirs about him.

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