Silva Kaputikyan

Sirvard Barunaki "Silva" Kaputikyan (Սիլվա Կապուտիկյան in Armenian) (20 January 1919, Yerevan - 25 August 2006, Yerevan) was a 20th century prominent Armenian poet, writer, academian and public activist. She was awarded by the "Renowned Master of Arts" Armenian SSR (1970) and "Renowned Worker of Arts" Georgian SSR (1980) official titles, State prizes of USSR (1952) and Armenian SSR (1988), "Nosside" Italian prize, ordens of St Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia) and "Knyaginia Olga" (Ukraine), "Woman of the Year" (1998) title of the Cambridge Biographical Centre. She was a member of International PEN.

In February 1988, during a reception in Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev asked that he and his wife, Raisa, are greatly admired Kaputikyan's poetry [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE0D7123EF932A25750C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print A Test of Change Explodes in Soviet, By F. Barringer with B. Keller, THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 11, 1988] ] .She appeared as herself in the 1992 documentary "Parajanov: The Last Spring", about Sergei Parajanov, a legendary film-maker of Armenian descent who was persecuted by Soviet authorities.

Born to parents that were originally from Van, she lived in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, her entire life, and died there of a stroke, aged 87. Her works were translated by Bulat Okudjava, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akhmadulina, Desanka Maksimović and others.

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* [http://www.sci.am/view.php?lang=1&Class=0&SubKey=1&docID=6&acid=154&step=3 Sci.am personal data]
* [http://learning.lib.vt.edu/slav/lit_authors_armenian.html Slavic, East European, and Former USSR Resources - Armenian literature]
* [http://www.armradio.am/news/?part=soc&id=6835 Armenian radio]
* [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse/article/00032/33900.htm?text=%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%8F%D0%BD Kaputikyan at Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian)]

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