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BAKUR (Boris Karapetyan)
Novelist, Journalist, 1986 Member of the Writers’ Union of Armenia

Born June 9th, 1941, Nagorni Gharabagh, Mardakert region, Margushavan village (Now occupied by the Azeri army).
Graduate of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. From 1967 Bakour’s articles, journalistic material and short stories have been printed in the state press. His reviews are dedicated to the social-economical and cultural issues of the state. He has created a number of documentary film shots dedicated to the hottest struggles in the Artsakh fight for existence, which have helped to internationalize the Artsakh issue. He was the manager of the Artsakh section of the “Freedom-fighter” paper, where he published many military factual and analytical reports. He is the manager of the Yerevan Management University department of journalism and a lecturer in the Yerevan State University department of journalism. The Home of Painters’ has exhibited his graphic art and the Armenian National Art Museum has exhibitions of his photographic collections “Fortified Shushi and the Spirit of the Middle Ages in a Boulder”, “Know the Borders of Your Country”. He is the manager and co-president of the “Shushi” Charitable Fund.
He is a member of the Armenian Unions of Journalists and of Painters.

WORKS

1. The Television Plunderer, Yerevan, 2004
2. Fortified Shushi, Yerevan, 2000
3. The White Gulf, Yerevan, 1990
4. A Hundred Year Dialogue, Tehran, 1986
5. Rediscovered Days, Yerevan, 1985

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