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Verjine Svazlian, ethnographer and folklorist, was born in 1934 in Alexandria (Egypt) in the family of the writer and public man Karnik Svazlian, himself an eye-witness survivor of Turkish tyranny.
In 1947, she has been repatriated with her parents to the Motherland, Armenia.
In 1956, she has graduated with honours from the Department of the Armenian Language and Literature of the Kh. Abovian State Pedagogical Institute.
Beginning from the nineteen fifties, she has, on her own initiative, started to write down and thereby saved from a total loss the various folklore creations communicated by the repatriates forcibly deported from Western Armenia, Cilicia and the Armenian-inhabited provinces of Anatolia, as well as the narrated memoirs of the eye-witness survivors of the Genocide.
Starting from 1958, she has worked at the M. Abeghian Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. During her post-graduate studies, she has been a M. Abeghian grant-aided student.
From 1961, she has worked at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and, from 1996, also at the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.
She has maintained her Candidate thesis in 1965 and her thesis for a Doctor's Degree in 1995.
She has participated in republican and international conferences, discoursing upon folklore, ethnography and the Armenian Action.
She is also the author of a number of scientific papers published in the Motherland and in the Diaspora.
Publications:
Has compiled and edited: Karnik Svazlian. "For My Motherland." "Hayastan" Publishing House. Yerevan, 1965 (in Armenian, with Cartoon Illustrations).
"Sarkis Haykouni. (Life and Work)."Armenian Ethnography and Folklore. Vol. 4, Publishing House of the AS ASSR, Yerevan, 1973 (in Armenian, with Russian Summary).
"Artsakh-Outik."Armenian Folk Tales. Vol. 6, Publishing House of the AS ASSR, Yerevan, 1973 (in Armenian).
"Taron-Turuberan."Armenian Folk Tales. Vol. 12, Publishing House of the AS ASSR, Yerevan, 1984 (in Armenian).
"Van-Vaspurakan."Armenian Folk Tales. Vol. 15, "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 1998 (in Armenian).
"Moussa Dagh."Armenian Ethnography and Folklore. Vol. 16, Publishing House of the AS ASSR, Yerevan, 1984 (in Armenian, with English & Russian Summaries)
| [In 1985 was awarded the "Honour Certificate" of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the Gold Medal "Honorary Denizen of Moussa Dagh" granted by the Moussa Dagh Compatriotic Union]. |
"Cilicia. The Oral Tradition of the Western Armenians." "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 1994 (in Armenian, with English, French & Russian Summaries).
"Genocide. The Oral Evidences of the Western Armenians." "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 1995 (in Armenian, with English, French & Russian Summaries).
"The Genocide in the Memoirs and Turkish-Language Songs of the Western Armenians." "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 1997 (in Armenian, with English, French & Russian Summaries).
"The Genocide in the Memoirs and Turkish-Language Songs of the Western Armenians." "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 1997 (in Russian, with English, French & Armenian Summaries).
"The Armenian Genocide in the Memoirs and Turkish-Language Songs of the Eye-Witness Survivors." "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 1999 (in English).
"The Folklore of the Armenians of Constantinople." "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 2000 (in Western Armenian, with English Summary).
"The Armenian Genocide. Testimonies of the Eye-Witness Survivors." "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 2000 (in Armenian, with English, French & Russian Summaries).
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[On April 24, 2000, on
the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, was awarded
the "Diploma of Honour" of the Presidium of the NAS RA "for the
scientific investigations in the field of the historical study of the
Armenian Case, the Armenian Genocide and the Armenian Diaspora, which
are important contributions to Armenian historiography." |
Has compiled and edited: Grikor Gyozalian. "The Ethnography of Moussa Dagh." "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA. Yerevan, 2001 (in Armenian, with English Introduction).
"The
Armenian Genocide and Historical Memory." "Gitutiun" Publishing House
of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 2003 (in Armenian).
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[On the 24th of April, 2003, the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and the International Committee "The Veritables for the Armenians" granted her the "Fridtjof Nansen's Memorial Medal for the scientific and public activity directed toward the condemnation of the Armenian Genocide and toward the establishment of philanthropic principles."]. |
"The Armenian Genocide and Historical Memory." "Gitutiun" Publishing House of the NAS RA, Yerevan, 2004 (in English, with English, French, Turkish, Russian & Armenian Summaries).
About Verjine Svazlian:
Svetlana Vardanian. "Verjine K. Svazlian." Notable Armenian Women Scientists. Bibliographical Materials. No. 3, Yerevan, 2002 (in Armenian & English).