LER KAMSAR (Tovmasyan Aram) was born in 1888 in Van. An Armenian writer, satirist.  He graduated from Etchmiadzin Gevorgyan Seminary in 1909. In 1915 he took part in the self-defense battles of Van. The three favorite genres of Ler Kamsar are small forms of comedies- feuilleton, short story, proverbs. 

He touched upon the First World War (1914-18), the international diplomatic games around the "Armenian Question", the policy of the national parties, social morals  in his works (“Invalid deads”, 1924, “National Alphabet” 1926, “Missed Tears” 1934, “The Man in Home Clothes”, 1965). In 1935 he was unreasonably imprisoned and exiled and was acquitted in 1955.

Ler Kamsar died on November 12, 1965 in Yerevan.

 
 Source - "Who is Who. The Armenians" Encyclopedia, Volume I, chief-editor Hovh. Ayvazyan, Yerevan, 2007.

 

 

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