Background
Sahakyan was born in Artsvashen, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.
satirist writer opinion journalist poet
Sahakyan was born in Artsvashen, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Armenian State Pedagogical University. Gorky Institute of World Literature.
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"), where he was 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), and I Love you (1975).
He was a laureate of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and foreign awards. His literary pieces have been translated into many languages.
He died, age 76, in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
After the collapse of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Sahakyan was a member of independent Armenia"s first parliament.