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Levon Ananyan ( hy, Լևոն Զաքարի Անանյան; 13 October 1946 – 2 September 2013) was an

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Biography

Born in Koghb,

, Levon Ananyan was a graduate of the

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; hy, Երևանի Պետական Համալսարան, ԵՊՀ, ''Yerevani Petakan Hamalsaran''), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919 ...

, Department of Philology. He worked for a number of state journals. For approximately 25 years, he worked for the ''Garoun'' monthly. In 1989, he became a member of the

, and from 1990 – 2001 he was chief editor for ''Garoun''. In 2001, he was elected President of the Writers' Union of Armenia. He was re-elected as the RA Writers' Union chairman in 2009. He lectures at the

Department of Journalism. He was the president of the Noyemberyan NGO. He was also a member of the Journalists' Union. He authored many articles on social and political issues, which have been printed in the state press. He also translated and published Russian and English books to the Armenian language; he founded "Apollo" Publishers.

Works

* * * * ''Turmoil'', Yerevan, 2004 * ''Drama on Stage and on the Screen'', Yerevan, 1996 * ''Roots and Foliage'', Yerevan, 1987

Translations From Russian and English to Armenian

* Contemporary Russian Statue, Yerevan, 2005 *

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References

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