Samvel Mkrtchyan

A remembrance plaque for Mkrtchyan.

Samvel Suren Mkrtchyan (Armenian: Սամվել Մկրտչյան) (25 February 1959 or July 2, 1959 – 7 December 2014) was an Armenian translator, editor and writer.^[1]

Early life

Mkrtchyan was born in Talin in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences.

Career

Mkrtchyan translated a number of works into the Armenian language. He published many publicist articles, poems, short stories and translated many books in Armenia and abroad. From 2002 to 2014 he was the editor-in-chief of the quarterly translation magazine "Foreign Literature".^[2]

He was a member of the Writers' Union of Armenia since 1995. He was a laureate of "Kantegh" award.

Shakespeare, Poems (Sonnets, Venus և Adonis, The Mistress of the Mistress), YSU, Yerevan, 1991.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland in 1994.

Death

Mkrtchyan died in Yerevan in 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

He was married to the politician Naira Zohrabyan.^[3]

References

^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
^ "Samvel Mkrtchyan - Literature Across Frontiers". www.lit-across-frontiers.org. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
^ "Naira Zohrabyan is Prosperous Armenia Party's candidate for Yerevan Mayor". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2021-04-13.

External links

[1] Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-15.

[2] "Samvel Mkrtchyan - Literature Across Frontiers". www.lit-across-frontiers.org. Retrieved 2021-04-13.

[3] "Naira Zohrabyan is Prosperous Armenia Party's candidate for Yerevan Mayor". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2021-04-13.

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