Petros Duryan

Petros Duryan was born in Nor tagh of Skyutar district of Constantinople. His real surname was Zmpayan. After perfectly finishing the school, he began to work as a clerk, teacher, worked in various newspapers, wrote dramas. We have received 39 poems by Duryan, 26 of which were written in 1871. His poems have been translated into French, English, German, Russian, Italian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Persian and Turkish. In 1871 Duryan was affected with tuberculosis, died in Constantinople.