Artashes Kalantarian
Artashes Piraghayi Kalantarian (16 September 1931 - 23 February 1991) was an Armenian writer, publicist, journalist and playwright.
Biography
Artashes Kalantarian was born in Yerevan. He finished the faculty of philology of the Yerevan State University where he used to crack jokes with lecturers. He worked in different positions in Yerekoyan Yerevan, Grakan tert and other periodicals. From 1970 to 1982 he worked at Armenian TV. He hosted My house is your house TV-program.
He is an author of 15 books[1] and numerous satiric articles and feuilletons, translated into Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian. His novel "Marathon" was sold out during few hours in 1969.[2]
Personal life
He was married to Julietta Kalantaryan and had four children. He was a kind, tolerant and thoughtful person.[3]