Gurgen Mahari (Gurgen Grigori Ajemian; August 14 [O.S. August 1], 1903 in Van – June 17, 1969 in Yerevan) was an Armenian writer and poet.[1] His most significant works include the semi-autobiographical novella Barbed Wires in Blossom (1968) and the novel Burning Orchards (1966), which is set in the writer's hometown of Van on the eve of the Armenian genocide.
- ^ Маари Гурген in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)