Hamo Sahyan Համո Սահյան |
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Born | April 14, 1914 Lor, Syunik, Russian Empire |
Died | July 17, 1993 Yerevan, Armenia |
Occupation | Poet, translator, |
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Hamo Sahyan (Armenian: Համո Սահյան; April 14, 1914, Lor village, Syunik - July 17, 1993, Yerevan, also Hmayak Sahaki Grigoryan) was an Armenian poet and translator.
He finished the Baku Pedagogical institute in 1939. In 1941 he returned to Yerevan, then served in the Soviet Navy during World War II.[1] He worked in "Avangard" and "Vozni" newspapers, edited "Grakan tert". The first collection of his poems was published in 1946. Sahyan was awarded by the State Prize of Armenia for his "Sezam, batsvir" (1972) book.