Armenian poet Davit Hovhannes dies at 71

Armenian poet and publicist Davit Hovhannes died Tuesday morning at age 71, Tert.am has learned from the Writers’ Union.

An author of around 25 verse collections, including children’s literature, Hovhannes started writing in early adulthood. His first collection was published in 1965 when the young writer was only 20 years old. Hovhannes was also known was his publicistic articles, essays, radio plays and translated collections.

Among his famous works are “City Winter”, “Armenian Forever” etc.

Hovhannes translated African-Asian, Baltic, Ukrainian, Russian and American classical poets.  

From 1999 to 2003, he was a member of Armenia’s National Assembly.