Zhirayr or ''Jirair'' Hrayri Ananyan (Ter-Ananyan) ( hy, Ժիրայր Հրայրի Անանյան (Տեր-Անանյան), July 14, 1934,

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) was an

n playwright. He is the author of "Taxi, taxi" (1973) comedial play, one of the most populars in Armenia since 1970's. During one season it was staged in Soviet theatres more than 100 times.

Biography

Ananyan studied at Mikayel Nalbandyan school of Yerevan. He finished the historio-philological faculty of

Yerevan State Pedagogical University Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) ( hy, Խաչատուր Աբովյանի անվան հայկական պետական մանկավարժական համալսարան, ՀՊՄՀ), is a state university and higher educa ...

in 1958. From 1959 to 1980 he worked at the Armenian State committee of TV and Radio.Biography
/ref> Ananyan's first play, "For a diploma" was staged in 1956. His "Andzanot amusninner", "Im tunn ko tunn che", "Karusel", "Trchogh apseits ijats marde", "Bravo" and other plays were staged at the Yerevan Sundukian theatre and Paronian theatre of comedy (including "Taxi, taxi" with

Karp Khachvankyan Karp "Karapet" Mkrtchi Khachvankyan ( hy, Կարպ Խաչվանքյան; January 23, 1923, Akhaltskha – November 29, 1998, Yerevan) was an Armenian actor and director, People's Artist of Armenia (1967).Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. ...

as ''Knyaz'' and

Svetlana Grigoryan Svetlana Rubeni Grigoryan ( hy, Սվետլանա Ռուբենի Գրիգորյան, September 30, 1930 – May 12, 2014) was an Armenian actress who was awarded the title ''People's Artist of Armenia''. Biography Grigoryan was born in Yerevan .She ...

as ''Roz''). He is one of the most popular Armenian playwrights, whose plays were translated into many languages of the world and staged in different countries, including United States,

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etc. Since 1980 he was a member of the

USSR Union of Writers The Union of Soviet Writers, USSR Union of Writers, or Soviet Union of Writers (russian: Союз писателей СССР, translit=Soyuz Sovetstikh Pisatelei) was a creative unions in the Soviet Union, creative union of professional writers ...

. In 2002 he was awarded by the "Vahagn" all-Armenian prize.

Books

*Taxi, taxi (plays), Yerevan, 1987 *A Man from Flying Source, Yerevan, 1991

References

External links

* Հուլիսի 14, Ծնունդներ, Ժիրայր Անանյան
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ananyan, Zhirayr 20th-century Armenian writers 1934 births People from Berd 2004 deaths Armenian State Pedagogical University alumni Armenian male writers