Meeting With Vahagn Davtyan

Vahagn Davtyan was born in Arabkir (Western Armenia). He moved to Krasnodar in 1926 and in 1932 came to Yerevan. Vahagn Davtyan participated in World War II between 1941 to 1945. He finished Yerevan State University Faculty of Philology in 1948. From 1962 to 1956 worked in “Literary Newspaper”, from 1965 to 1967 “Voice of Motherland”, from 1981 to 1991 “ Reborn Armenia” and from 1967 to 1981 in Committee of Cultural Relations with the Armenian Diaspora. He was the Chairman of Writers Union of Armenia from 1991 to 1994, and corresponding member in National Academy of Sciences from 1996 (Academic since 1996). Vahagn Davtyan had more than 40 books of poems. His works started printing in 1935 and were translated into Russian, Ukrainian, English, French and in other languages. Vahagn Davtyan was awarded with Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, in 1972 Badge of Honor, in 1982 Order of the Red Banner of Labor. In 1971 Honorary Worker of Culture of Armenia. In 1977 and 1985 he was awarded with State Prize of the Republic of Armenia. Vahagn Davtyan died in Yerevan.