Hamo Sahyan ( hy, Համո Սահյան, also known as ''Hmayak Sahaki Grigoryan''; April 14, 1914 – July 17, 1993) was an

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n poet and translator.

Biography

In 1939 Sahyan graduated from the Baku Pedagogical institute. In 1941 he moved to Yerevan, and then served in the Soviet Navy during

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. He worked in "Avangard" and "Vozni" newspapers, edited "Grakan tert". The first collection of his poems was published in 1946. Sahyan was awarded by the State Prize of Armenia for his "Sezam, batsvir" (1972) book. Sahyan died in 1993 and was buried at Komitas Pantheon in Yerevan.Sahyan's memorial tombstone at Komitas Pantheon
Hush.am. Retrieved on 2015-12-31.

References

External links

Hamo Sahyan's Selection of Poems

Hamo Sahyan's biography

Don't Mark Me Absent. The Last Book by the Poet
20th-century Armenian poets 1914 births 1993 deaths Armenian translators 20th-century translators Burials at the Komitas Pantheon Armenian male poets 20th-century male writers {{armenia-translator-stub