Zori Balayan

Zori Balayan ( _hy. Զորի Բալայան) born February 10, 1935 in Stepanakert is an Armenian novelist, journalist, sports-doctor, traveler and sports expert [ [http://www.wua.am/writers/balayan_zori/eng.htm Balayan's page at the Armenian Writer's Union official site] ] . He awarded by the "Renowned master of the Arts" Armenian official title.

Biography

Born in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh. He graduated the Ryazan State Medical University in 1963, from 1971 to 1973 crossed the Kamchatka and Chokotskaya tundras with dog-sledges, traveling as far as the North Sea.

Balayan was participated in the Karabakh movement, in 1988 he and Armenian poet Silva Kaputikyan had a reception by Mikhail Gorbachev and discussed "the absence of Armenian-language television programs and textbooks in Nagorno-Karabakh schools" and other problems [ [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] ] .

Balayan is a journalist of the "Literaturnaya Gazeta".

Interpol

The authorities in Azerbaijan allege that Balayan was involved in a terrorist bombing of the metro in Baku in 1994. General secretary of Interpol, in a letter to Balayan, stated that the agency considered the complaint politically motivated and that it had removed Balayan from its wanted list as a result [ [http://www.armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&IID=1040&CID=1239&AID=1036&lng=eng&PHPSESSID=0f2c6b8e1 Tony Halpin, "Ship Shape: Cilicia completes second leg of its historic journey around Europe ", "ArmeniaNow", Issue #33 (155), September 02, 2005..] ] .

Books

* My Kilikia, (Russian), Yerevan, 2004
* Zim Kilikia (Զիմ Կիլիկիա (Armenian)), Yerevan 2005
* Kilikia (Կիլիկիա (Armenian)), vols. 2 and 3, Yerevan 2006 - 2007
* Chasm, (Armenian and Russian), Yerevan, 2004
* Heaven and Hell (Armenian, Russian and English) Los Angeles, 1997, Yerevan, 1995
* Hearth, Moscow 1984, Yerevan 1981
* Between Two Fires, Yerevan 1979
* Blue roads, Yerevan 1975
* Required Man's opinion,(Russian) Yerevan 1974

References