Hamo Sahyan

Hamo Sahyan Համո Սահյան
Hamo Sahyan
Born	(1914-04-14)14 April 1914 Lor, Zangezur uezd, Elizavetpol Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire
Died	17 July 1993(1993-07-17) (aged 79) Yerevan, Armenia
Occupation	Poet, translator
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Hamo Sahyan (Armenian: Համո Սահյան, real name Hmayak Sahaki Grigoryan; April 14, 1914 – July 17, 1993) was an Armenian poet and translator.

Biography

Hamo Sahyan was born on April 14, 1914, in the village of Lor in the Sisian district of the present-day Syunik region. Later, the literary name was formed with the abbreviation of the name and the beginning of the patronymic.

In 1927, he moved to Baku to live with his uncle. In 1935, he entered and graduated from the Linguistic faculty of the Baku Pedagogical Institute in 1939. Between 1939 and 1941, he worked as a literary employee in the Baku magazine "Soviet Writer". During the Great Patriotic War, he served in the navy as a sailor of the Caspian Fleet. Having returned from the 1945-1951 war he worked as a literary employee in the Baku newspaper "Communist" in Armenian.

In 1951 he moved to Yerevan. Between 1951 and 1954 he worked as the head of the department in the Yerevan newspaper "Avangard", and between 1954 and 1955 he was again the head of the department in the magazine "Hedgehog". Between 1965 and 1967, he was the editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta. In the following decades, he was mainly engaged in literary work.

The first collection of poems by Hamo Sahyan entitled "On the Edge of the Gate" was published in 1946. In recent years, the cult of Stalin's personality has published three unsuccessful poetry collections. Later he published the collections "On high" (1955), "Nairyan Dalar Bardi" (1958), "Armenia in Songs" (1962), "Before sunset" (1964), "Song of stones" (1968).

In 1972 the collection "Open Sesame" was published, for which Sahyan was awarded the State Prize of the Armenian SSR. During the 1970s and 1980s the collections "Evening bread" (1977), "Green-red autumn" (1980) and "Mint flower" (1986) were also published. In 1998, a collection of typical poems by Hamo Sahyan, "Don't Let Me Go", was posthumously published. He did translations of Pushkin, Yesenin, Lorca and others. He died on July 17, 1993, in Yerevan. The remains are buried in the Komitas Pantheon.

External links

• Hamo Sahyan's Selection of Poems
• Hamo Sahyan's biography Archived 2019-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Don't Mark Me Absent. The Last Book by the Poet