Razmik Davoyan, one of the most prominent contemporary Armenian poets, passed away aged 82, Panorama.am learnt from the President of the Writers' Union of Armenia Edvard Militonyan. The author of famous poems "Unwrap your skin", "The spider", and "After Narekatsi" died on Tuesday after along illness.
Davoyan was born in Mets Parni, Spitak rayon, Armenian SSR in 1940. He studied philology and history at Armenian State Pedagogical University. From 1970 to 1975 he worked as senior adviser at the Committee for Cultural Relations with the Diaspora. From 1975 to 1990 he worked as Secretary of the Central Committee for Armenia’s State Prizes. In 1989 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for the Earthquake Struck Disaster Area. In 1994 he became the first elected president of the Writers’ Union of Armenia. From 1999 to 2003 he served as Adviser (on cultural and educational issues) to the President of the Republic of Armenia.
His first poem was published in 1957 in the Leninakan Daily “Worker”. Since then he has published well over thirty volumes in Armenian, Russian, Czech and English. His works were widely translated all over the Soviet Union and published in countless Literary Magazines and Journals...
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