Yuri Sahakyan

Born in the village of Chaylu, Martakert district, Nagorno-Karabakh. He graduated from the village secondary school. In 1966 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Yerevan State University. In 1971-1973 he attended the Higher Literary Courses at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. He worked at the Yerevan television studio, on the editorial staff of the weekly "Hayreniki dzayn" ("Voice of the Homeland"), at the Armenian Society of Book Lovers, and at the "Sovetakan grogh" ("Soviet Writer") and "Arevik" publishing houses. He published his first book in 1966. He has been a member of the Writers' Union of Armenia since 1968. He lives and works in Yerevan.