What is Shushanik Kurghinian?
{{Orphan|date=May 2009}} [[Image:Kurghinians.jpg|thumb|200px|Shushanik Kurghinian]] '''Shushanik Kurghinian''' (Popoljian) ([[1876]]-[[1927]]) was an [[Armenia]]n poet. Kurghinian received little or no recognition for her outstanding poems. Although a [[Socialism|socialist]] with some stirring poems of labour's rebellion to her name, she remained a dim star even in the [[Soviet era]]. Today she is almost unknown, away from the literary canon in [[Armenia]] and the [[Diaspora]]. == Background == Shushanik Kurghinian was born on August 18, [[1876]], in [[Gyumri|Alexandrapol]], in the [[Yerevan]] province of Eastern [[Armenia]], into a poor family of Popolji Harout. In her autobiography Shushanik writes of her childhood: “Sometimes father would bring his [shoe-repair] ‘workstation’ home, in order to save money, and I would work for him – demanding my wages, every single kopek (Coin). My mother, having been raised in a traditional household, would reprove my ‘ill behavior toward my parent,’and blamed those harmful books for corrupting me.” == Works == `Whoever is without hope, dulled, without spirit,<br> alone and lacking faith...<br> bring them to me<br> my spirit is free<br> I will give them of my soul...'<br> (Selected Works, 1982 Yerevan p260) == Other websites == *[http://www.groong.org/tcc/tcc-20060227.html `I Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik Kurghinian'] or at [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Shushanik_Kurghinian ArmeniaPedia.org] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kurghinian, Shushanik}} [[Category:Armenian poets]] [[Category:Autobiographers]] [[Category:1876 births]] [[Category:1927 deaths]]