Book Presentation

An afternoon with Hratch Demiurge, translator of Hagop Baronian's diary "My Ledger"

Ararat-Eskijian-Museum and Research Center

30 mars 2025 4:00 PM

Ararat Eskijian Museum and Research Center
Sheen Chapel
15105 Mission Hills Road,
Mission Hills Ca 91345

California - United States

In this penetrating literary diary, Hagop Baronian chronicles the life of 1880’s Constantinople, the colorful cosmopolitan capital of the collapsing Ottoman Empire. As an Ottoman Armenian, Baronian follows the day-to-day developments of the “Armenian Question” and also provides no holds barred portrait of the Armenians of Constantinople, who pursued a life of morally bankrupt material well-being to the exclusion of literature, education, and the spirit.

Hratch Demiurge is a comic poet, teacher and translator of Daniel Varoujan’s Pagan Songs. He translated “My Ledger” with his students from Rose and Alex Pilibos High School as part of a translation course in 2023.