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    PROMINENT ARMENIAN FILMMAKER, WRITER DIE

    http://armenianow.com/news/51193/armenia_rector_theater_institute_armen_mazmanian_d ies
    NEWS | 08.01.14 | 21:12

    Armen Mazmanyan, Levon Khechoyan

    Two prominent Armenian intellectuals died after long illnesses in
    Yerevan on Wednesday.

    Armen Mazmanyan, a film director and rector of the Yerevan State
    Institute of Theater and Cinema, died aged 53, at the Saint Gregory
    the Illuminator Medical Center in Yerevan.

    Writer Levon Khechoyan also passed away the same day, aged 58.

    Mazmanyan, who was also the founding director of the Goy Theater,
    had the rank of the Deserved Artist. He was honored with the Fridtjof
    Nansen medal and several Armenian state awards.

    Khechoyan, who received a state award for one of his novels, lived
    and created in Hrazdan. His works have also been published in literary
    journals abroad.




    From: A. Papazian
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