Sokrat Khanyan

Sokrat Khanyan
File:Xanyan-2-283x336.jpg Sokrat Khanyan
Born	(1930-01-22)January 22, 1930 Aknakbyur, Hadrut, Nagorno Karabakh
Occupation	poet, translator, literary critic, publicist.
Nationality	Armenian
Period	1950 - present
Children	3

Sokrat Khanyan (Armenian: Սոկրատ Աղալարի Խանյան), is an Armenia poet , translator, literary critic, publicist. Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor. Member of the USSR Writers' Union since 1958 . Member of the Communist Party since 1963.

Biography

Sokrat Khanyan was born on January 22, 1930, in the village of Ağbulaq,_Khojavend (now Aknaghbyur) in the Nagorno Karabakh's, Hadrut region. In 1944 he graduated from the seven-year school in his native village, then from the secondary school in the village of Harlan Edillu (now Ukhtadzor). In 1947 - 1948 he worked in his native village as the secretary of the communist organization, the head of the house of culture. between 1949 - 1953 he studied and graduated from Baku V. I. Lenin State Pedagogical Institute, Department of Armenian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology. In 1950 Khanyan's first poem dedicated to the memory of the elder brother, poet Suren Khanyan, who died in the Great Patriotic War, was published in "Communist" newspaper. Between 1953 - 1962he worked as a journalist in the editorial office of "Communist" Armenian Republican newspaper published in Baku. He has been a member of the USSR Writers 'Union since [1958], Artsakh] Writers' Union since [1994]]. In [1959]] he published his first collection of poems entitled "Karkach". Between1962 - 1965 he studied in Baku V. I. In the postgraduate course of the Lenin State Pedagogical Institute, with a degree in "Armenian Literature". At the same time, he taught in the department of Armenian language and literature. In 1965 Institute of Literature after Manuk Abeghyan of NAS RA he defended a thesis on "Nairi Zaryan Dramaturgy", and received the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences. 1969 թ. In Baku V. I. After the closure of the Armenian department of the Lenin State Pedagogical Institute, he moved to Stepanakertwhere he continued teaching at the Department of Armenian Language and Literature of Artsakh State University as an associate professor, In1974 - 1988 he was the chairman of the Student Scientific Council of Artsakh State University, 1975 - 1976 the chairman of the regional "Gitelik" company. Between1978 - 1981 he held the position of the Dean of the Linguistic Faculty of Stepanakert Pedagogical Institute (ArSU). 1984 - 2007 He was first the head of the chair of the Armenian language, literature, then literature and journalism at ArSU. 1985 - 1990 He was the chairman of the NKR Regional Committee for the Defense of Peace. 2002 in the RA NAS M. He defended his thesis at the Abeghyan Institute of Literature on "The Fate of the Homeland in Armenian Poetry (1950-1990)" and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philological Sciences. 2004 received a professor's diploma in "Literature" from the RA HRC .

Personal life

Sokrat Khanyan's grandson is Hayk Melikyan, an is an Armenian pianist and composer.

Works

Collections of poems

1. Karkach (1959)
2. Friendship (1963)
3. My heart is with you (1966)
4. Arsar (1968)
5. The Song of the Mountains (1972)
6. My Gift (1973)
7. We Are Still Waiting (1975)
8. Mountain Bells (1978)
9. On Your behalf (1980)
10. The lights of longing. Stepanakert, 1990
11. Mirza Ibragimov: [Tv. portra.] / Socrat Khanyan, 108, [1] p. silt 17 cm, Baku Yazychi 1986
12. Feat of Tatul Guryan: [On the life and work of the arm. owls. poet, 1912-1942] / Socrat Khanyan, 54 p. 16 cm, Stepanakert Mashtots 1991
13. Bells of Artsakh. Er. 1991
14. My rainbow. Stepanakert, 2000

Awards

• NKR medal “Vachagan the Pious” (NKR, 2001) • Medal "Maternal gratitude" (NKR, 2001) • Prize to them. Muratsan (NKR JV for the study “Artsakh War and Armenian Poetry”, 1998) • Prize to them. Yeghishe of NKR (for the poem "Eagle of Artsakh", 1992) • Medal "For Labor Distinction" (State Committee of Public Education and the Central Committee of Trade Unions of the USSR, 1990).

See also

• Armenian literature

References

http://ru.hayazg.info/Ханян_Сократ_Агаларович