Artashes Kalantarian


Artashes Piraghayi Kalantarian was an Armenian writer, publicist, journalist and playwright.
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Biography

Artashes Kalantarian was born in Yerevan. He graduated from faculty of philology of the Yerevan State University specializing in journalism, where he used to crack jokes with lecturers. He worked in different positions in Sovatakan Hayastan, Yerekoyan Yerevan, Grakan tert and other periodicals. From 1970 to 1982 he worked at Armenian TV. He created and hosted My home is your home popular TV-program.
He is the author of 15 books and numerous satiric articles and feuilletons, translated into Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian. His novel Marathon was sold out in a few hours in 1969.

Personal life

He was married to Julietta Kalantaryan and had four children. He was a kind, tolerant and thoughtful person.