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AVAGYAN SOPHIE

Translator, 1976 Member of the Writers’ Union of Armenia

Born December 29th, 1930, Oshagan village, Ashtarak region (Now Arakadzodni marz).
Graduate of Yerevan State University Department of Philology, Romano-German division. Worked in the Writers’ Union of Armenia Literary Press (“Sovietakan Grokh” and "Grakan Tert"). Later she worked in the Writers’ Union Division of International contacts. In this capacity she established contacts between foreign and soviet publishers, printers and individual writers. At their request she has formed collections of prose and poetry by Armenian writers. Aside from her work she did translations, and wrote articles and reviews concerning the art of translation.

TRANSLATIONS (from Russian and French.)

1. Prosper Merime, Chronology of the reign of Carlos IX, Yerevan, 2002
2. Henry Mattis, Articles, Letters, Dialogue, Yerevan 1999
3. Paul Gogen, Noah, Noah, Before and After, Articles and Letters, Yerevan 1994
4. Henry Vernois, Mother, Yerevan 1989
5. Gidemo Passan, The Olive Garden, Novels, Yerevan 1985

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