Aramais Sahakyan

Who was Aramais Sahakyan?

Aramais Sahakyan was an Armenian poet, humorist, publicist and translator.

Sahakyan was born in Artsvashen, Armenian SSR. A graduate of the Armenian State Teacher Training Institute's Language and History Department, Sahakyan later took higher literary courses at the Moscow Maxim Gorky Institute. In the 1960s he was a publisher for the Armenian periodicals Avanguard and Garun. From 1970 till 1971, Sahakyan worked at the State Commission of the Armenian Television and Radio. He was better known for his humor weekly, Vozni, of which he was the editor-in-chief for over 30 years.

Sahakyan's best known books are Starlet, Love Age, We are Together, To Love and to Live, Be Happy, and I Love you. He was a laureate of numerous USSR and foreign awards. His literary pieces have been translated into different languages. After the collapse of the USSR, Sahakyan was a member of independent Armenia's first parliament. He died, aged 76, in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.