Mıgırdiç Margosyan

Mıgırdiç Margosyan (23 December 1938 – 2 April 2022) was a Turkish-Armenian writer.

Background Margosyan was born on 23 December 1938 in the Hançepek district of Diyarbakır, Turkey. He received his primary education at the Süleyman Nazif Elementary School and the Ziya Gökalp Middle School in Diyarbakır, and continued his secondary education at the Armenian community schools in Istanbul, attending Bezciyan Middle School and Getronagan Armenian High School. Margosyan received his college degree from the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Letters at Istanbul University.

Between 1966 and 1972, Margosyan worked as the school director of the Surp Haç Tıbrevank Armenian High School and also taught philosophy, psychology, Armenian language, and literature. Later, he left teaching and started commercial activities.

Writing career Margosyan published a number of short stories in Armenian at the Marmara newspaper. Some of these were later collected and published under the name Mer Ayt Goğmeri (1984) by a small circle of intellectuals that included Margosyan and Yetvart Tomasyan. In 1988 Margosyan received the Eliz Kavukcuyan Literature Award for authors writing in Armenian in Paris, France. In 1993, Margosyan, Tomasyan, and Hrant Dink founded Aras Publishing, which became the only publishing house in Turkey that published books in Western Armenian. On 7 April, he was interred at Şişli Armenian Cemetery.