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Zabel Assadour

I lived from 1863-1934. I was from Armenia, and am in the Asian category.

Zabel Assadour was born in Skutari, a suburb of Constantinople, in 1863. She was born Zabel Khanjian and spent much of her youth writing, primarily on women’s rights. While still quite young she helped set up the “Society of Armenian Women Devoted to the Nation” which helped found a series of schools for young girls before it was shut down by the government. She married her second husband, Herant Assadour – himself a literary man, and took on his name as a pen name. She has written under the names : Zabel Khanjian; Zabel Assadour; Sybille; Sybil; and Madame Sybil.
She died in 1934.


References :

www.ars1910.org/HaiSird/HaiSird156Art13.pdf - page 5
www.armenianhouse.org/blackwell/armenian-poems/zabel-assatour.html

My poetry

  • Tears
    There are tears that fall in grief and sadness;
    Slow and mournfully the cheek they stain,
    24 lines, 4 comments
  • The Incense
    BEFORE the altar burns the fragrant incense;
    Softly the silver censer sways and bows;
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • The Ideal
    IT is the moonlight, clear and soft, which soon the sun outshines—
    A fiery dream, which pales before the morning’s stronger glow.
    20 lines, 1 comment

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