Hrant Matevosyan
Hrant Ignati Matevosyan was an Armenian writer and screenwriter. By the time of his death he was considered Armenia's "most prominent and accomplished contemporary novelist".
Biography
Hrant Matevosyan was born in 1935 in the village of Ahnidzor, now located in Armenia's Lori Province. He studied in the village school then continued his education at the Pedagogical University of Kirovakan. In 1952 he moved to Yerevan where he worked at a printing house. From 1958 until 1962, Matevosyan was a proofreader for the magazine Sovetakan Grakanutyun and the newspaper Grakan Tert.Matevosyan started his literary career in 1961 with an essay "Ahnidzor," which was an expression of a new outlook in literature and was not appreciated at first. His first story collection Ogostos was published in 1967. Matevosyan became acclaimed as one of the pioneers of Armenian modern rural prose. He headed the Writers' Union of Armenia from 1995 until 2000. His literary pieces have been translated into around 40 languages, including Russian, English, French, German, Lithuanian, Estonian, and Georgian.
Matevosyan died of cancer on 12 December 2002 at the age of 67. He is buried at Komitas Pantheon which is located in the city center of Yerevan. He had two children, a son and a daughter.
Education
- Kirovakan Pedagogical University
- 1958–1962 — Yerevan State Pedagogical Institute, Department of History and Linguistics
- 1966–1967 — Moscow Higher Course on Scriptwriting
Awards
- 1967 — "Дружба народов" magazine award
- 1984 — USSR State Literature Award
- 1984 — USSR State Literature Award
- 1996 — Knight of RA Mesrop Mashtots order
Works
Stories- 1967 — August
- 1967 — Orange Pony
- 1967 — Mesrop
- 1968 — Buffalo
- 1987 - Trees
- Metsamor
- In Front of White Paper
- It's Me
- 1969 — We and Our Mountains
- 1969 — The Poor's Honour
- 1975 — This Green, Red World
- 1977 — Autumn Sun
- 1977 — August
- 1979 — Aramayis Yerznkyan
- 1983 - Neutral Zone
- 1984 — The Master
- 1992 — National Army
- 1962 — We and Our Mountains
- 1974 — Carriage Horses
- 1982 - Tashkent
- 1973 — Autumn Sun
- The Master
- Along the Edge
- Buffalo
- The Country's Nerve
- Princess Nana's Bridge
On September 12, 2013 a statue of Hrant Matevosyan, created by Artashes Hovsepyan, an honored artist of RA, sculptor, was installed in the yard of the school named after Hrant Matevosyan.