Burial ceremony of Aramais Sahakyan to take place on March 17

YEREVAN, MARCH 15, ARMENPRESS: Requiem ceremony of prominent poet, humorist, publicist and translator Aramais Sahakyan will take place at 6:30-8:30 pm on March 16 in Yerevan St. Hovhannes (John the Baptist) Church. As Armenpress was informed from Armenian Ministry of Culture, last farewell ceremony of humorist will take place in Writers' Union of Armenia and burial ceremony at 2:00 pm in Yerevan Pantheon.

After a long disease Aramais Sahakyan, 77, passed away on March 14.

Aramais Sahakyan was an Armenian poet, humorist, publicist and translator. A graduate of the Armenian State Teacher Training Institute's (now University) Language and History Department, Sahakyan later took higher literary courses at the Moscow Maxim Gorky Institute. In the 1960s he was a publisher for the Armenian periodicals Avanguard and Garun (Spring, a literary monthly). From 1970 till 1971, Sahakyan worked at the State Commission of the Armenian Television and Radio. He was better known for his humor weekly, Vozni (Hedgehog), of which he was the editor-in-chief for over 30 years (1982-2013).

Sahakyan's best known books are Starlet (1958), Love Age (1959), We are Together (1964), To Love and to Live (1968), Be Happy (1972), I Love you (1975) etc. He was a laureate of numerous USSR and foreign awards. His literary pieces have been translated into different languages. After the collapse of the USSR, Sahakyan was a member of independent Armenia's first parliament.