Silva Kaputikyan

Silva Kaputikyan, born Sirvard, was born in 1919 in Yerevan, to parents who had survived Van; her father, a schoolteacher, died of cholera three months before her birth. She published her first poem in 1933, graduated in 1941 from the faculty of philology in Yerevan, married the poet Hovhannes Shiraz and studied at the Gorky Institute in Moscow. She toured the Armenian communities abroad in 1962-1963 and in 1973, defended Karabakh, returned a decoration in 2004 to protest against the repression of a demonstration, and died in Yerevan in 2006.

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• PoetryՍրտաբաց զրույցSilva Kaputikyan · 1955not translated into EnglishLiterature