Oshagan was born in 1883 as Hagop Kufejian in Soloz , a village near Bursa . Oshagan was spared the fate of many of his fellow writers and was able to elude the Turkish secret police until early 1918 , when he fled from Constantinople to Bulgaria , disguised as a German officer . After the armistice , he returned to Constantinople in 1919 , where he adopted his literary surname , and taught literature , actively participating in the literary activities of the Armenian community . At the end of 1922 , as many other Armenian intellectuals , he left Constantinople permanently after the arrival of the Kemalist forces . He lived for a brief time in Plovdiv , Bulgaria , and then worked as an instructor of Armenian literature in Egypt ( 1924-1928 ) , Cyprus ( 1928-1935 ) , and Palestine ( 1935-1948 ) , where he forged a reputation as a charismatic educator and prolific writer of fiction , drama , and literary criticism . He died while on a visit to Aleppo , on the eve of a planned visit to Deir ez-Zor , where hundreds of thousands of Armenians had perished during the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Hagop Oshagan