Shahan Shahnour

Armenian Diaspora Author

Shahan Shahnour

Շահան Շահնուր

1903–1974

French-Armenian novelist and poet whose modern diaspora writing examined exile, assimilation, language, desire, and fractured identity.
Novels Poetry Armenian diaspora Exile Assimilation Identity

About Shahan Shahnour

Shahan Shahnour (1903–1974), born Shahnour Kerestejian in Constantinople, was a French-Armenian novelist and poet. He moved to Paris in 1923 and wrote in Armenian as Shahan Shahnour and in French as Armen Lubin.

His landmark novel Retreat Without Song depicts the disorientation and assimilation of young Armenian exiles in France. His later Armenian prose and award-winning French poetry continued to explore displacement, illness, language, and belonging.

Books by Shahan Shahnour