Levon Larents

Levon Larents (Kirisciyan) (, 1875–1915) was an Armenian writer, translator, journalist, editor, novelist, poet, and teacher. He was an editor of many newspapers around the world and the founder of many others. During the Armenian genocide, Larents was deported to Ankara and then killed.

Life

Levon Larents was born in 1875 in the Samatya district of Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. He received his education at the local Robert College where he graduated in 1902. During his time as a student in Robert College, Larents along with classmates Yenovk Armen and Hrand Esayan published the Zepur Armenian periodical. For a brief period after his graduation, Larents was a contributor to the Puzantion newspaper. He eventually moved to Alexandria, Egypt when worked in Orosdi Back, a wholesale company. However, after the death of Arpiar Arpiarian, Larents moved to Athens, Greece. After the Young Turk revolution in 1908, Larents returned to Constantinople where he became the chief-editor of Murj and Tsayn Hayreneats for two years.