Born in Yerevan. She wrote her first poem at the age of 13. In 1936-1941 she studied at the Faculty of Philology of Yerevan State University, and in 1950 at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. She began to be published in 1933. In 1970 she was awarded the title of Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR, in 1980 that of Honored Worker of Culture of Georgia, and later that of Honorary Citizen of Yerevan. She was awarded numerous medals and orders. 1941: member of the presidium of the Writers' Union; 1994: academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. She died in Yerevan.
