Antranig Dzarugian
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Antranig Dzarugian was an influential diasporan
Armenian diaspora
The Armenian diaspora refers to the Armenian communities outside the Republic of Armenia and self proclaimed de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic...

 Armenian
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 writer, poet, educator and journalist in the 20th century.

Dzarugian was born in Gürün
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 in 1913. His father "Chelo Toros" was a fighter within the Armenian irregular units
Armenian irregular units
Armenian irregular units, also known as Fedayees were Armenian civilians who left their families to form armed brigades. Armenian fedayees were volunteers and, literally, "one who is ready to sacrifice his life" for his people)...

 against the Ottoman Empire. During the years of the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...

, Dzarugian lost his mother during the death marches in the Syrian desert, and lived his childhood in the Armenian Orphanage of Aleppo
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. In 1921, he met his mother in Aleppo and moved to the local Haygazian Armenian School to receive his elemntary education. In the same year, his father was arrested and killed in the Marash prison for his participation in the patriotic movemnet against the Ottoman Empire.

After completing his elementary education in Aleppo, Dzarugian moved to Beirut
Beirut
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 to complete his education at the newly-opened Armenian College. Among his teachers in the college were prominent Armenian educators such as Nikol Aghbalian
Nikol Aghbalian
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 and Levon Shant
Levon Shant
Levon Shant , was an Armenian playwright, novelist, poet, and founder of the Hamazkayin National Cultural Foundation.- Biography :He was a life-long member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and is the namesake of the ARF's Shant Student Association.Attended Armenian school at Scutari until...

. After his graduation, Dzarugian started his career as a teacher in the Armenian schools of Aleppo and Beirut. Since 1950, he began to publish the "Nayiri" litrary weekly paper in Beirut.

His most prominent works "People without childhood" (Մանկութիւն Չունեցող Մարդիկ) and "Miraculous Aleppo" (Երազային Հալէպը) are auto-biographies dedicated to his childhood life in the orphanage of Aleppo.

Dzarugian visited Soviet Armenia for the first time in 1956. His impressions of this trip to the homeland was reflected in his book "Old dreams, new paths" (Հին Երազներ Նոր Ճամբաներ).
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