Armen Sargsyan

Armen Sargsyan (1991) is a poet, literary critic and editor. He graduated from the Armenian State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Armenian Philology. In 2016, Antares Publishing House published his first collection of poems, Instead of Unread Books, for which he received the Republic of Armenia Presidential Youth Award in 2017. His poems have been translated into several languages, including English, German, Georgian, Ukrainian and Russian. He has participated in poetry festivals in Genoa, Kyiv and Dushanbe. Sargsyan is the lead specialist in literature at the RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, the editor-in-chief of Vernatun Publishing House and the artistic director of the Yerevan International Book Festival.

 

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