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BURIAL CEREMONY OF ARAMAIS SAHAKYAN TO TAKE PLACE ON MARCH 17
18:01, 15 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 15, ARMENPRESS: Requiem ceremony of prominent poet,
humorist, publicist and translator Aramais Sahakyan will take place at
6:30-8:30 pm on March 16 in Yerevan St. Hovhannes (John the Baptist)
Church. As Armenpress was informed from Armenian Ministry of Culture,
last farewell ceremony of humorist will take place in Writers' Union
of Armenia and burial ceremony at 2:00 pm in Yerevan Pantheon.
After a long disease Aramais Sahakyan, 77, passed away on March 14.
Aramais Sahakyan was an Armenian poet, humorist, publicist and
translator. A graduate of the Armenian State Teacher Training
Institute's (now University) 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 (Spring, a literary monthly). 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 (Hedgehog),
of which he was the editor-in-chief for over 30 years (1982-2013).
Sahakyan's best known books are Starlet (1958), Love Age (1959), We
are Together (1964), To Love and to Live (1968), Be Happy (1972), I
Love you (1975) etc. 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.
18:01, 15 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 15, ARMENPRESS: Requiem ceremony of prominent poet,
humorist, publicist and translator Aramais Sahakyan will take place at
6:30-8:30 pm on March 16 in Yerevan St. Hovhannes (John the Baptist)
Church. As Armenpress was informed from Armenian Ministry of Culture,
last farewell ceremony of humorist will take place in Writers' Union
of Armenia and burial ceremony at 2:00 pm in Yerevan Pantheon.
After a long disease Aramais Sahakyan, 77, passed away on March 14.
Aramais Sahakyan was an Armenian poet, humorist, publicist and
translator. A graduate of the Armenian State Teacher Training
Institute's (now University) 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 (Spring, a literary monthly). 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 (Hedgehog),
of which he was the editor-in-chief for over 30 years (1982-2013).
Sahakyan's best known books are Starlet (1958), Love Age (1959), We
are Together (1964), To Love and to Live (1968), Be Happy (1972), I
Love you (1975) etc. 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.