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Poetry dedicated to the victims of genocide and war. An Homer award-winning book. Sona Van's subject is the Armenian genocide, also known as the Great Catastrophe. Her family was driven into exile due to this horrific event. Her poems reflect a personal connection to this history as well as the universality of loss, persecution, and intolerance. Forward written by Award winning actress, Beata Pozniak
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Polish
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Sona Van (actually: Ter-Howhannisjan) is a famous Armenian poet and traveler. She was born in Yerevan, Armenia. Her grandfather, a respected Armenian clergyman from the East Anatolian city of Van (hence, the poet's literary pseudonym) in the terrible 1915, stayed in Istanbul with a large part of his family. They were all eyewitnesses or even victims of the atrocities of Young Turkish militias.
Returning to her thoughts about those terrible times,...
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