Gevorg Emin
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Gevorg Emin Գևորգ Էմին | |
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| Born | September 30, 1919 Ashtarak, First Republic of Armenia |
| Died | June 11, 1998 (aged 78) Yerevan, Armenia |
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| Nationality | Armenian |
| Literary movement | Socialist realism |
| Notable works | Seven Songs About Armenia |
| Relatives | Artashes Emin (son), Vazgen Muradian (brother), Vago Muradian (nephew) |
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Gevorg Emin (
Biography
Emin, the son of a school teacher, was born in the town of
In school, Emin met Armenia's leading poet
- Today if I write instead of building canals and power plants it is due to two things: the impact of meeting Yeghishe Charents, and second, the touch of ancient manuscripts at the Matenadaran library where I worked as a student and could read and hold the magnificent old manuscripts from the fifth through the eighteenth centuries.
Emin's roots as a poet are deeply embedded in the culture and the physical landscape of the country he grew up in. To this is added his extensive reading of modern poetry, especially
Emin's poetry has been translated from Armenian to many languages all over the world. Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko read him in Russian and immediately hailed his work. Yevtushenko wrote the Introduction to the collection of Emin's verse translated into English as For You on New Year's Day; here the Russian poet contrasted Emin to his fellow Armenian poets who emphasized emotion in their work:
- Gevorg Emin has an entirely opposite conception of the craft. He takes pride in revealing the rational armature of poetry and the details of its construction. Some of his poems remind us of transparent watches where the movements and direction of each gear and lever are visible. But it is a watch that keeps perfect time.
Perhaps as a result of Emin's training in science, he writes in a simple, straight forward language. Edmond Y. Azadian, in the Afterword to For You on New Year's Day, suggests that Emin freed Armenian poetry "from the restrictions that followed Charents' time, the bleak Stalin era," reinvigorating it after a long period during which experimentalism had been discouraged. Martin Robbins suggests, in Ararat Quarterly, that his poetry reflects "the tough compression of an engineer's mathematically trained mind," and cites as a representative example his poem "Small" in which he acknowledges the defenselessness of the Armenian people but affirms their strength. In many of his poems Mount Ararat itself serves as an emblem of the endurance of his people. In "Song of Songs" he writes: "I am an Armenian. ancient as this Biblical Ararat / my feet still wet from the waters of the flood."
For his poetry, Emin was awarded the
Emin's first wife was the daughter of the distinguished Armenian poet
External links
- Эмин Геворк (Emin Gevork) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)
- Gevork Emin at Armenica.org
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