Zaruhi Kalemkaryan Explained

Zaruhi Kalemkaryan
Birth Name:Zaruhi Seferian
Birth Date:July 20, 1871
Birth Place:Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Death Date:1971
Death Place:New York, New York, United States
Nationality:Armenian Americans

Zaruhi Kalemkaryan (Armenian: Զարուհի Գալեմքեարեան; July 18, 1871 or 1874[1] in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire – July,[2] 1971 in New York, New York) was a prose writer, essayist, poet, and philanthropist of Armenian descent.[3]

Life

Zaruhi Kalemkaryan was born Zaruhi Seferian on the Asiatic side of Constantinople's Bosphorus to Aşod Seferyan and her mother Peruze Demircibaşyan. She attended the local Aramian Armenian School and started her early experiments with poetry at school. She married Mihran Kalemkaryan in 1889, who was a member of the Ottoman Army. She began publishing under the pen names Yevterpe, and after her marriage G. Zaruhi. She contributed to Mari Beylerian's newspaper Artemis. After the Armenian Genocide, she assisted in the relief effort of the genocide survivors, especially children. She also contributed to the Armenian feminist journal Hay Gin. During this time, she published numerous poems in Constantinople and continued in the United States. She settled in New York City and was involved in many philanthropic and charitable foundations for the Armenian community. She was one of the first women members of AGBU (Armenian General Benevolent Union). In 1971, she died at the age of 97.[4]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ancestry.com. Naturalization papers. .
  2. Web site: Ancestry.com. Ssdi. .
  3. Book: Rowe, Victoria. A history of Armenian women's writing, 1880–1922. 2003. Cambridge Scholars. London. 9781904303237. 251.
  4. News: Tarihin unutulmuş sayfalarından: Yazar Zaruhi Kalemkaryan . Agos . tr.