Hrant Matevosyan

Hrant Matevosyan (Armenian: Հրանտ Մաթևոսյան, February 12, 1935 - December 19, 2002) was an Armenian writer, screenwriter, an outstanding representative of contemporary Armenian fiction.

Biography

Hrant Matevosyan was born in the village of Ahnidzor, Armenia's Lori region.He studied in the village school then he continued his education in Pedagogical University of Kirovakan. In 1952 he moved to Yerevan where he worked in a printing house. From 1958 until 1962, Matevosyan was a proofreader in the Sovetakan Grakanutyun (Soviet Literature) magazine and the Grakan Tert (Literary Newspaper) newspaper.Hrant Matevosyan started his literary career in 1961 with his famous essay "Ahnidzor".His first story collection"Ogostos"(August) was published in 1967. He headed the Writers' Union of Armenia from 1995 until 2000. His literary pieces have been translated in around 40 languages, including Russian, English, French, German, Lithuanian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Georgian, etc. He has a son and a daughter. Hrant Matevosyan died on December 12, 2002 at age 67.

Hrant Matevosyan is buried at Komitas Pantheon which is located in the city center of Yerevan.^[1] He has two children, a son and a daughter.

Hrant Matevosyan's tomb at Yerevan's Komitas Pantheon

Education

Kirovakan Pedagogical University
1958-1962 — Yerevan State Pedagogical Institute, Department of History and Linguistics
1966-1967 — Moscow Higher Course on Scriptwriting

Awards

1967 — "Дружба народов" (Friendship of Nations) magazine award
1984 — USSR State Literature Award
1984 — USSR State Literature Award
1996 — Knight of RA Mesrop Mashtots order

Literary heritage

Short stories

1962 — We and Our Mountains (short story)
1974 — Carriage Horses
1982 - Tashkend
1973 — Autumn Sun
The Master
Along the Edge(incomplete)
Buffalo
The Country's Nerve

Stories

1967 — August
1967 — Orange Pony
1967 — Mesrop
1968 — Buffalo
1987 - Trees

Publicistic articles, essys

Metsamor
In Front of White Paper
It's Me

Film scenarios and plays

1969 — We and Our Mountains (film)
1969 — The Poor's Honour (film)
1975 — This Green, Red World (film)
1977 — Autumn Sun (film)
1977 — August
1979 — Aramayis Yerznkyan (film)
1983 - Neutral Zone(play)
1984 — The Master(film)
1992 — National Army (film)

References

↑ Matevosyan's memorial tombstone at Komitas Pantheon

External links

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