Levon Khechoyan ( hy, Լևոն Խեչոյան; 8 December 1955 – 8 January 2014) was an Armenian writer and novelist.

Biography

Khechoyan was born in the village of Baraleti,

Akhalkalaki district Akhalkalaki ( ka, ახალქალაქის მუნიციპალიტეტი, ''Akhalkalakis munitsip’alit’et’i'') is a municipality in southern Georgia, in the region of Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 41,026 (2021 ...

, Georgian SSR. Since 1987 he lived and worked in Hrazdan, Armenia. In 1983 he graduated from the

Gyumri State Pedagogical Institute Shirak State University ( hy, Շիրակի պետական համալսարան), also known as Shirak State University named after Mikayel Nalbandian ( hy, Շիրակի Միքայել Նալբանդյանի անվան պետական համալսա� ...

receiving an M.A. in philology. Khechoyan participated in the first Artsakh War. He started writing as a teenager, and his first collection of short stories, Trees of Incense, was published in 1991. Khechoyan is the author of historical novel ''King Arshak and Eunuch Drastamat''. Many of his works have been translated into Russian, English and Ukrainian. In 2000, he received the Gold Reed literary award for his book ‘Black Book, Heavy Bug’. In 2013, he refused to accept the Medal for Services to the Homeland granted by President Serzh Sargsyan in protest against the socioeconomic and political situation in the country.

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Writer Levon Khechoyan dies

Левон Хечоян
1955 births 2014 deaths People from Samtskhe–Javakheti Shirak State University alumni Armenian military personnel of the Nagorno-Karabakh War 21st-century Armenian male writers Armenian novelists Armenian male novelists 20th-century novelists 20th-century Armenian novelists 21st-century Armenian novelists 20th-century male writers 21st-century male writers {{Armenia-writer-stub