Mkrtich Armen

Mkrtich Harutyunyan, known by the pen name Mkrtich Armen was a Soviet and Armenian writer and poet.

Biography

He was born in Alexandropol to a family of artisans, and studied at the Gerasimov [Institute of Cinematography] in Moscow.
He wrote novels and short stories that made him famous in his native Armenia and in the wider Soviet Union. His magnum opus is the 1935 novel Heghnar aghbyur, which was later made into a film. He fell out of favor with the authorities, was deported to Siberia, and later released. He published an account of camp life in 1964 and died eight years later in Yerevan.