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Paruyr Sevak

Died in 1971

Paruyr Sevak, whose civil name was Paruyr Ghazarian, was born in 1924 in the village of Chanakhchi and took his pen name in homage to the poet Rupen Sevak, killed in 1915. A graduate of Yerevan University in 1945, he studied and then taught literary translation at the Gorky Institute in Moscow until 1959, and became a researcher at the Institute of Literature in Yerevan, secretary of the Writers' Union and a deputy. He died with his wife in 1971, in a car accident whose circumstances are disputed.

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