Bedros Hadjian

Bedros and Sossie Hadjian

Bedros Hadjian (born January 24, 1933, Jarablos, Syria) is a Buenos Aires-based Armenian writer, educator and journalist. In 1954, he became the headteacher of the Armenian school of Deir el Zor, in northern Syria, one of the destination points of Armenians marched off by Ottoman authorities during the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

After teaching Armenian History and Literature at the Haygazian Armenian School of Aleppo from the mid-1960s, Hadjian was named in 1970 headteacher of the Karen Jeppe Gemaran, the biggest Armenian secondary school of Aleppo and one of the most prominent in the Armenian diaspora.

In 1970, Hadjian moved to Buenos Aires as the editor of Diario Armenia, an Armenian-language daily newspaper that became a weekly in the late 1980s, and the headteacher of Instituto Educativo San Gregorio El Iluminador, one of the biggest Armenian schools in South America. He remained the editor of Diario Armenia until 1986 and retired as the headmaster of San Gregorio El Iluminador. Since 1986, he has devoted himself to writing fiction and non-fiction books, published in Buenos Aires, Aleppo and Yerevan. He is a frequent contributor to Armenian newspapers such as Haratch in Paris, Nor Gyank in Los Angeles and Sardarabad in Buenos Aires on Armenian and Armenian diaspora affairs as well as literature and book reviews.

Books

• Grandes Figuras de la Cultura Armenia, Siglos V-X (Great Figures of the Armenian Culture, 5th to 10th Centuries) (Buenos Aires, 1987, in Armenian and Spanish).
• Grandes Figuras de la Cultura Armenia, Siglos XI-XVI (Great Figures of the Armenian Culture 11th to 16th Centuries) (Buenos Aires, 1989, in Armenian and Spanish).
• Armenian Grammar 1, 2 and 3 (Buenos Aires, 1991, in Armenian).
• Hrammetsek Baronner (Buenos Aires, 1999, in Armenian).
• Haryur Daree, Haryur Badmootyun (One Hundred Years, One Hundred Stories) (Buenos Aires, 2003, in Armenian; English version due in 2009).
• Gargemish (Aleppo, 2003, in Armenian).
• El Cinturón (The Belt) (Buenos Aires, 2005, in Spanish).
• Cien Años, Cien Historias (Buenos Aires, 2008, in Spanish, translated by Vartan Matiossian).
• Janabarh Tebi Garguemish' (The Road to Gargemish) (Yerevan, 2008, in Armenian).
• Haravë Spyurki Metch (The South in the Diaspora) (Aleppo, 2008, in Armenian).
• One Hundred Years, One Hundred Stories (Alepo, 2009, in English, translated by Aris Sevag).

External links

• "2004/04 Letter to president proeducatio", savemelkonian.org