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Time for Wiki Wednesday.

You know - you go to Wikipedia, you click on "random article," you report on the outcome.

Here's my random Wiki Wednesday find for this week:

Raffi (poet)

Hakob Melik-Hakobian (also Hagop Hagopian) (1835 Bayajuk (Salmas area), Persia – 1888 Tbilisi, Georgia), better known by his pen name Raffi (Armenian: Րաֆֆի), was an Armenian author and poet. Raffi was a seminal novelist, often called the founder of the Armenian historical novel.

Originally from Iran, he made his debut as a writer in Tiflis, away from his native land, joining the literary school of Mshak, which was an Armenian journal founded by Grigor Arzrouni in 1872. This publication under the leadership of its founder and editor, played a striking role in inspiring enlightenment and causing the awakening of the Armenian people from the lethargy in which the vast majority slumbered for centuries after they lost their political independence in 1393.

"Sure, go on; laugh at Raffi's obscurity in the world of poetry. But one day ONE DAY! - it may be tomorrow, it may take until the turn of the millennium (give or take a few years) - children around the world will beg their parents to purchase my works. Then THEN! Raffi will finally be taken seriously."

Comments

[Donna]

HAHA. Raffi..I just got that.