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Vahan Tekeyan

Died in 1945

Vahan Tekeyan was born in 1878 in Ortaköy, on the Bosphorus, lost his father at the age of eleven and was largely self-taught. A secretary in an insurance company, he was sent in 1896 to Liverpool, then to Marseille and Hamburg. Settled in Egypt in 1904, he founded a literary review there, returned to Constantinople after 1908, and was in Jerusalem, then in Cairo, when the war broke out. Founder of a diaspora party, translator of Shakespeare and Hugo, he died in Cairo in 1945.

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