Aramais Sahakyan (, May 24, 1936 – March 14, 2013) was an Armenian poet, humorist, publicist and translator.

Biography

Sahakyan was born in

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. A graduate of the Armenian State Teacher Training Institute's (now university) Language and History Department, Sahakyan later took higher literary courses at the Moscow Maxim Gorky Institute. In the 1960s he was a publisher for the Armenian periodicals ''Avanguard'' and ''Garun'' ('Spring,' a literary monthly). From 1970 till 1971, Sahakyan worked at the State Commission of the Armenian Television and Radio. He was better known for his humor weekly, ''Vozni'' ('Hedgehog'), where he was editor-in-chief for over 30 years (1982–2013). Sahakyan's best-known books are ''Starlet'' (1958), ''Love Age'' (1959), ''We Are Together'' (1964), ''To Love and to Live'' (1968), ''Be Happy'' (1972), and ''I Love you'' (1975). He was a laureate of USSR and foreign awards. His literary pieces have been translated into many languages. After the

collapse of the USSR The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...

, Sahakyan was a member of independent Armenia's first parliament. He died, age 76, in

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Biography

Արամայիս Սահակեան (1936-2013)
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