# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derenik-demirchian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:18:13.849Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derenik-demirchian"
name: "Derenik Demirchian"
slug: "derenik-demirchian"
description: "Derenik Karapeti Demirchian was a Soviet and Armenian writer, novelist, poet, translator and playwright. He began his career as a poet, but later transitioned into prose writing. He was a prolific writer whose works deal with a wide variety of subjects. He is perhaps best known for his historical novel Vardanank (1943), which is a dramatization of the 5th-century Armenian rebellion led by Vardan Mamikonian."
tagline: "Armenian writer (1877–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derenik_Demirchyan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1877-01-17"
deathDate: "1956-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump