Shushanik Kurghinian (Շուշանիկ Կուրղինյան) (1876-1927)


Death: 24th November 1927
Location:  Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, Armenia
Photo taken by: Shushan Avagyan

Armenian writer who became a catalyst in the development of socialist and feminist poetry. She gave voice to the voiceless and saw her role as a poet as profoundly political.

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