Hamo Sahyan ( hy, Համո Սահյան, also known as ''Hmayak Sahaki Grigoryan''; April 14, 1914 – July 17, 1993) was an
Armenia
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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
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
. 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
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