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AVAGYAN EDWARD

Poet, writer, translator WUA member since 1967

Born in 1927, August 19, Tbilisi, Georgia.
A graduate of Yerevan State University, the department of Philology. In 1953-54 he was teaching Armenian in the translators group of USSR WU. He worked in publishing houses. In 1958 his first book 'Cottage in the Forest' was published. This was followed by other books for grown-ups and children. He pays particular attention to stories about Yerevan and old citizens of Yerevan. He has numerous translations, through which Armenian reader gets to know fereign literature (P. Shelley, F. Petrarca, J. London, A. Pushkin, M. Prishvin and others). At the moment he works at Yerevan Museum of History as a senior research scientist.

WORKS

1. Fruit Fair (rhymed tale), Yerevan, 2004
2. The Sun Children, in the Crossroads of Yerevan (stories), Yerevan, 2001
3. One Life Not Enough (historical two-volume novel), Yerevan, 1979, 1980
4. Golden Wheats (children poems), Yerevan, 1975

AWARDS

1. In 2001 he was awarded the WUA and City Hall 1-st Prize for his 'The Sun Children, in the Crossroads of Yerevan'.
2. In 1997 he was awarded the Prize after Simon Simonyan for his novel 'God's Man'.
3. In 1990 he was awarded the Prize after Derenik Demirchyan for his novel 'The Last Alarm of Urfa'.
4. In 1987 he was given a title of 'RA Culture Honoured Worker'.

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