Vahan Tekeyan

Vahan Tekeyan was born in Constantinople. He studied at secondary schools of Constantinople. He worked at Polis, then left to England, France, Germany and Egypt. In Alexandria he founded “Shirak” magazine in 1905. In 1908 he started publishing it as a weekly magazine in Constantinople. He was the editor of the magazine "Arev", "Voice of nation" and other magazines. As a teacher worked at Armenian schools of Constantinople and Cyprus. In 1901 his first book of poems was published in Paris. He is an author of stories and chronicles, also translated sonnets of Shakespeare. VahanTekeyan died in Cairo. There is a cultural center in Beirut called “Tekeyan”.