Career
In 1915 during the Armenian genocide Gurgen"s family emigrated to Russia. His first book, Titanic was published in 1924. Then he wrote his autobiographical trilogy (first part, "Childhood" was published in 1929, and the third part was finished in 1955) which tells his story of survivor and the tragedy experienced by Armenians in Western Armenia.
He is also the author of the novel Burning Orchards (1966) and Charents-name (1968), memoires about Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents.
