Hakob Hakobian (poet)

Hakob Hakobian
Hakob Hakobian
Born	(1866-05-29)29 May 1866 Elisavetpol,
Died	13 November 1937(1937-11-13) (aged 71) Tbilisi
Nationality	Armenian
Occupation	poet
Known for	Founder of Armenian proletarian poetry

Hakob Hakobian (Armenian: Հակոբ Հակոբյան; often transliterated from Russian as Akop Akopian; 29 May 1866, in Elisavetpol – 13 November 1937, in Tbilisi), was a Soviet Armenian poet, the founder of Armenian proletarian poetry. Communist party member from 1904. Awarded with the titles of Armenia and People's Poet of Georgia.^[1] He was considered as the "Armenian Maksim Gorky" by the Bolshevik press.^[2]

Hakobian published his first book in 1899. He's the author of revolutionary poems that include One more cut (1905), Revolution (1905), Died but didn't disappear (1906), Red waves (1911), Shir-Kanal (1924) etc. Hakobian was appointed as the Bank's commissar of Soviet Georgia, he was a member of the government of Transcaucasian Federation.

Books[]

• Луначарский А. В., А. Акопян, в его кн.: Статьи о советской литературе, М. (in Russian), 1958;
• Саркисян Г., А. Акопян, Ер., 1956.

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