The young tourist also explained the reason behind their desire to know and understand better what the poem was about. Gohar admitted that it was a quite big surprise for her, since she has never heard of the Bengali language before, but he told her that it was one of the most widespread languages in India. It turns out that four years ago, a young Indian tourist entered the house/museum of Charents (where Gohar works), and approached her to ask about different translations of “Yes Im Anoush Hayastani.” Not long after, he showed translations of the poem done by him and his Indian friend into Hindu and Bengali. His granddaughter, Gohar Charents, started the presentation by telling the story that inspired the creation of the book. Unfortunately, he did not manage to do everything he planned in his lifetime for his country, yet his legacy is an indelible part of Armenian literature. He dedicated his whole life to his country and his people, and his writings from prison indicate that he was still thinking about his people at the very last moments of his life. As only one example of this, Charents volunteered to fight against the Turks when he was just 17. The creation story behind the poem is unknown, but it was always obvious to everyone that Charents’s love for Armenia was above everything else. It was dedicated to his first wife Arpenik, who died when she was 27. The audience included one of the greatest modern Armenian composers, Tigran Mansourian, as well as the grandchildren of Charents and of his best friends, poet Avetik Isahakyan and painter Martiros Saryan.Ĭharents was merely 23-24 years old when he wrote this great poem. YEREVAN – On October 20, a presentation of the newly published Yes Im Anoush Hayastani by Yeghishe Charents, a book containing the translation of the famous poem of this name translated into 35 different languages, took place next to the Aram Khachaturian Opera and Ballet Building as part of the Aurora Humanitarian Forum of 2019.
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