Armenian Diaspora Author
Ruben Sevak
Ռուբեն Սևակ
1885–1915
Western Armenian poet, prose writer, and physician whose lyrical and civic writing joined love, compassion, injustice, and national tragedy.
Poetry
Short stories
Western Armenian literature
Love
Social justice
Armenian Genocide
About Ruben Sevak
Ruben Sevak (1885–1915), born Ruben Chilingirian in Silivri, was a Western Armenian poet, prose writer, and physician. He studied medicine in Lausanne and practiced in Switzerland before returning to Constantinople.
His poems and stories combine intimate lyricism with concern for poverty, injustice, and human suffering. Arrested with other Armenian intellectuals, Sevak was murdered during the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
Books by Ruben Sevak
My Library. Ruben Sevak
$22.99
