Gevorg Emin

Gevorg Emin, whose civil name was Karlen Mouradian, was born in 1919 in Ashtarak, the son of a schoolteacher, and grew up in Yerevan from 1927. A hydraulic engineer who graduated in 1940, he built a power station, then fought and was wounded during the Second World War. A poet of a simple and rigorous language, whom Yevgeny Yevtushenko praised, he translated Polish poets in particular and received the State Prize of the Soviet Union. He died in Yerevan in 1998.

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• EssaySeven Songs about ArmeniaՅոթ երգ Հայաստանի մասինGevorg Emin · 1974Literature