Background
Artem Harutyunyan was born in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabagh, in 1945.
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Artem Harutyunyan was born in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabagh, in 1945.
After graduating from Yerevan State University, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in American and English Literature from Moscow"s Maxsim Gorky Institute of World Literature, Professor (1991).
Harutyunyan has served as NKR representative to Washington in 1994-1995. He is also the recipient of France"s Rene Char Award, and the V. Tekeyan as well as H. Ouzounyan literary awards for his Conflagration of an Ancient Land, published in the United States in 1994. Letter to Noeh and Other Poems (New York, 1994) is his first book in English.
Harutyunyan has lectured at the universities of Moscow, the Sorbonne, Monpellier, Paul Valery, Darham and Cleveland State University.
He is Professor of Foreign Literature and Literary Criticism at Yerevan State University, and is a Fulbright Scholar for 1994, at Colgate University, he is also second term Fulbright Professor for 2001, at USLA (Los Angeles).