06 08 26 - Armenian Poetess Silva Kaputikian Passess Away

Silva Kaputikian Passess Away
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Yerevan, August 25, Armenpress: Armenian poetess, orator, academician Silva Kaputikian passed away today at the age of 87. She was born in Yerevan, January 20, 1919. She graduated from the YSU's Philological Department and then from Moscow's Gorki Literature Institute.
The first collection of her poems was published in 1945. Overall, she published 60 collections in Armenian, Russian and other languages.
Silva Kaputikian was laureate of a number of literary awards. In 1998 Cambridge International Geographic Institute awarded her the title of "Woman of the Year".

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