Background
Artashes Kalantarian was born in Yerevan.
humorist journalist playwright translator
Artashes Kalantarian was born in Yerevan.
He finished the faculty of philology of the Yerevan State University where he used to crack jokes with lecturers.
He worked in different positions in Yerekoyan Yerevan, Grakan tert and other periodicals. From 1970 to 1982 he worked at Armenian television He hosted My house is your house television-program He is an author of 15 books and numerous satiric articles and feuilletons, translated into Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian.
His novel "Marathon" was sold out during few hours in 1969.