Love Has Gone

He was born in the town of Kamo (Republic of Armenia, now Gavar). In 1967 he graduated from secondary school, and in 1971 from the Faculty of Mechanisation of the Armenian Agricultural Institute. From the 1970s he engaged in journalism and literature. In 1989–90 he studied in the two-year Higher Courses of the M. Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. He wrote the lyrics of about 200 songs. In 2005 he received the gold medal of the International Community of Writers' Unions, in 2008 the Avetik Isahakyan Prize of the Writers' Union of Armenia, in 2009 the "For Literary Merit" medal of the Writers' Union of Armenia and the gold medal of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, and the Griboyedov commemorative medal of the Union of Writers of Russia.