Hakob Karapents

Hakob Karapents was born in Tabriz (Iran). He finished French college and Armenian school Haykazyan-Tamaryan. He is one of the founders of Union of Culture of Armenian Youth in Tehran (in 1944), which in 1950 was renamed to “Union of Armenian Culture Ararat”. From 1947 to 1949 Karapents studied at the university in Missouri, and from 1950 to 1952 at the Columbian University (NY, USA). He was specialized in journalism, afterwards he chose psychology as a second profession. Between 1951 to 1953 he lived in California after moved to New York, where he taught philology. From 1954 to 1979 Karapents headed Armenian edition of the radio station “Voice of America”. He is an author of many romances and narrations. Died in Boston.