Levon Mirijanyan

Levon Mirijanyan was born in Yerevan. In 1950 finished school after Kh. Abovyan, in 1955 Yerevan State University, in 1962 he graduated from M. Abeghyan Institute. Together with studies from 1949 to 1959 worked in the editorial offices of the newspapers “Pioneer Call”, “Literary Newspaper” and “Yerevan”. Since 1958 he was a Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, from 1962 to 1967 Secretary of the School of the Institute of Literature M. Abeghyan, from 1967 to 1975 Head of fiction at “Hayastan” Publishing House. A lot of his works were translated into Arabic, English, Russian, Ukrainian. He is also author of historical works. Mirijanyan was the chairman of the Armenia-Ukraine society and was actively involved in the development of Armenian-Ukrainian literary relations. In 2002 he was awarded with Order of Merit by the Decree of the President of Ukraine. Mirijanyan died in Yerevan.