Khnko Aper

Khnko Aper
Born Atabek Khnkoyan
October 19, 1870
Village of Gharaboya, Lori region, Russian Armenia
Died October 8, 1935(1935-10-08) (aged 64)
Yerevan
Nationality Armenian
Occupation Children's writers

Atabek Khnkoyan (Armenian: Աթաբեկ Հովհաննեսի Խնկոյան, October 19, 1870 - October 8, 1935), Armenian Children's writers, who wrote under the pen name Khnko Aper (Armenian: Խնկո Ապեր).

Biography

He was born in the village of Gharaboyaa in Lori region. He received his primary education in his birthplace and then in Alexandropolb. Between 1890 and 1910 he taught in various Armenian schools in Transcaucasia. He contributed to the periodicals Ashkhatavor (The Labor), Nor ashkhtavor (The new laborer), Aghbiur (The fountain), Machkal (The plowman), Hayastani ashkhatvaruhi (The Armenian worker-woman), and Hasker (Spikes), a monthly magazine for children.[1]

Following the establishment of the Soviet regime, he settled in Armenia, where he resumed his career as a writer and educator. He wrote several textbooks to teach Armenian children their mother tongue, including Mer Dbrotse (Our school) and Karmir arev (Crimson sun)[2]

Khnko Aper wrote mainly children's literature: fables, legends, and lyric and narrative poems. His original writings and translation make a total of 120 books. Giughatsin yev arje (The peasant and the bear, 1909), Gogh makin (The lamb thief, 1911, 1941, 1970), Pesatsu muke (Mouse, the intended bridegroom to be 1912), Arakner (Parables, 1917, 1930, 1937), Tranvaye Yerevanum (The Yerevan streetcar, 1934, 1936). Mknern inchpes grvestin katvi tem (How the mice fought the cat, 1936) Kkozn agrave (The pig and the crow, 1940), Gayln u katun (The wolf and the cat, 1957) and Mkneri zhoghove (The council of mice, 1957, 1964, 1972, 1979), are among his best known works. khnko Aper's use of dialect and popular language are part of literary charm of his prose and poetry. He died in Yerevan and was buried in the Komitas Pantheon in Yerevan.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ A. J. Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian, ed. (2002). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the eighteenth century to modern times. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 664–665–49. ISBN 9780814330234.
  2. ↑ A. J. Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian, ed. (2002). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the eighteenth century to modern times. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 664–665–49. ISBN 9780814330234.
  3. ↑ A. J. Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian, ed. (2002). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the eighteenth century to modern times. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 664–665–49. ISBN 9780814330234.

External links

Khnko Aper at Find a Grave

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