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Derenik Demirjian (1877-1957) was born in the Armenian city of Akhalkalaki in Georgia. Acclaimed in his lifetime for his comedy Nazar the Brave and his novel Vardanank, after his death he was memorialized in the Derenik Demirjian State Literary Prize.\

Diana Agabeg Apcar, born in Ragoonm British East India October12, 1859, died in Yokohama, Japan July8, 1937. she commenced writing in he 20’s prior to marriage, Fluent in English, Armenian and Hidustani as well as come Japanese her books expressed her lover for her race as well as her deep affection for the Indian and Japanese people. \

Cambridge (MA) poet Diana Der-Hovanessian got some far-flung publicity recently. Her book, "Selected Poems," was being given out on Minnesota Public Radio to donors of $66 during its recent fund-raisier. Der-Hovanessian said she heard about it from her publisher, Sheep Meadow Press in New York. "I guess it's because of Garrison Keillor; he uses things from my books on `Writer's Almanac,'" she said, referring to his syndicated radio show, which is carried on WGBH in Boston. Keillor often reads the poem "Shifting the Sun." Der-Hovanessian is president of the New England Poetry Club.

Deacon Zak‘aria (1627-ca. 1699) was a native of K‘anak‘er, who lived and wrote in the great monastery of Hovhannavank‘ in the K‘asagh region of the Khanate of Erevan (eastern Armenia).

A renowned curator, David Travis has written extensively about modernist photography. In 1975, he founded the Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. During a thirty-five-year career, he organized more than 150 exhibitions, which toured museums in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and he has published many foundational texts in the field.