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AVAGYAN AREVSHAT

Poet, writer, translator, publicist, painter
WUA member since 1970

Born in 1940, July 24, in Ashtarak.
A graduate of Yerevan State University, the department of Journalistics. Worked on Armenian TV, in state literary press. He is the president of Armenian Cultural Fund since 1994. JU and Artists' Union member. He had personal art exhibitions in Yerevan, Moscow, Kiev, Boston, Paris, Los-Angeles. He has been designing his own books starting with 1974 and is the author of more than 20 collections of poetry and prose. He took part in international festivals and meetings devoted to poetry in Paris, Poznan, Novi Sad and Moscow. He himself organizes poetry and art festivals, TV projects and programs. He translates as well. He has translations from French, Polish, Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian and other languages. His own works were translated into several foreign languages.

WORKS

1. Shelters(selected works), Yerevan, 2003
2. The Key of the Words(for young readers), Yerevan, 2003
3. The Soul Material, Yerevan, 2000
4. Bright Trail(stories), Yerevan, 0990
5. Flights with No Landings(poems), Yerevan, 1988
6. The Ship in the Seine, Yerevan, 1976

AWARDS

In 1981 he was awarded the WUA Prize after Av. Isahakyan for his poem collection 'The Roots of Light'

Address:

375069, Yerevan, D. Anhaghti 16, ap. 14
tel. ap. 24-16-78, office 54-55-19

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