Romik Sardaryan

Romik Sargsyan was born in Kapan. He was six or seven years old when the family moved to Yerevan. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Yerevan State University. He worked in the Republican press, the State Committee of Television and Radio until 1981, then he was reinstated in 1994. He participated in the creation of the first self-defense squads in Kapan. However, after some time he had a car accident and was bedridden for two years. In 1993 he started working at the service of the "Armenian Soldier" newspaper. His poems, translations and articles were regularly published in the literary press. In 1991, he was elected a member of the Writers' Union of Armenia. Romik Sargsyan was also a member of the Union of Journalists of Armenia. In 2000 he was awarded the prize named after Paruyr Sevak of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Died in Yerevan.