1. In 1937 Hovhannes Shiraz entered the Armenian Literature Department at Yerevan State University, where he studied until 1941.
12 Facts About Hovhannes Shiraz
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Hovhannes Shiraz studied at the Moscow Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
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Hovhannes Shiraz wrote "The Armenian Dante-esque" about the Armenian genocide, a subject that was banned in Soviet Union.
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Hovhannes Shiraz first married the famous Armenian poet Silva Kaputikyan.
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Hovhannes Shiraz's son with Kaputikyan, Ara Shiraz, was a sculptor.
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Hovhannes Shiraz was buried at Komitas Pantheon in Yerevan, along with other distinguished Armenians.
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The Hovhannes Shiraz House-Museum is located in a nineteenth-century building in Gyumri.
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Hovhannes Shiraz was an anti-establishment poet, popular among the people of Soviet Armenia, who fought against its corrupt Soviet leadership all his life.
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Hovhannes Shiraz is an author of about forty poetry books and translations.
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Hovhannes Shiraz built his poems with Armenian "tuff of emotions", added Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
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Poems of Hovhannes Shiraz are known throughout the former USSR and abroad.
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The Hovhannes Shiraz House-Museum is located on Varpetats Street, Gyumri.