1. Silva Kaputikyan's father, Barunak, was a member of the nationalist Dashnaktsutyun party and died of cholera three months before her birth.
25 Facts About Silva Kaputikyan
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Silva Kaputikyan attended the Faculty of Armenian Philology Yerevan State University from 1936 and graduated in 1941, and subsequently studied at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1949 to 1950.
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Silva Kaputikyan joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1945.
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Silva Kaputikyan made her literary debut in the early 1930s and published her first poem in 1933.
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Silva Kaputikyan wrote several poems for children and two dramas.
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Silva Kaputikyan's works were translated by Bulat Okudzhava, Yunna Morits, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina, and others.
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Silva Kaputikyan died at a Yerevan hospital on 25 August 2006 during a surgery for a broken leg.
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Silva Kaputikyan praised the prominent Russian human rights advocate Andrei Sakharov as "the conscience of the Soviet people".
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Silva Kaputikyan called for "peaceful revenge" in regards to the Armenian genocide.
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Silva Kaputikyan was among the speakers who commemorated in their speeches the Armenian intellectuals who were deported and killed in 1915.
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Silva Kaputikyan later criticized the Soviet leadership for their policies regarding the April 1965 genocide commemorations in Soviet Armenia.
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Silva Kaputikyan contrasted the "unrestrained commemorations" in the Armenian diaspora with the commemorations in Yerevan, which according to her, "lacked the necessary depth and breadth".
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In 1983 Silva Kaputikyan wrote a requiem for Levon Ekmekjian called "Night Requiem", which was first published in 1987.
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Silva Kaputikyan was among the Armenian intellectuals who expressed their support of Varoujan Garabedian, the perpetrator of the 1983 Orly Airport attack in Paris.
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Silva Kaputikyan was later released from a French prison in 2001 and deported to Armenia.
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Silva Kaputikyan was one of the early leaders of Karabakh movement, along with Zori Balayan and Igor Muradyan.
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At a 15 February 1988 meeting of the Writers Union of Armenia Silva Kaputikyan spoke up in support of the Karabakh Armenians.
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Silva Kaputikyan was increasingly critical of the government of independent Armenia's second president, Robert Kocharyan.
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Silva Kaputikyan returned the Mesrop Mashtots Medal she had been awarded by Kocharyan in 1999.
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Silva Kaputikyan wrote that a responsible politician would have resigned after the 1999 shooting in the Armenian parliament when Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan were assassinated, among others.
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Silva Kaputikyan is among the most notable Armenian women in history.
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Silva Kaputikyan became a classic of Armenian literature during her lifetime and her poems have been included in school literature programs.
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Silva Kaputikyan was "one of the best-known and widely quoted Soviet Armenian poets".
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On 20 January 2009, on the 90th anniversary of her birthday, the Silva Kaputikyan House-Museum was inaugurated in Yerevan in attendance of President Serzh Sargsyan and her son, Ara.
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Silva Kaputikyan appeared in the 1992 documentary, Parajanov: The Last Spring, about Sergei Parajanov, a film-maker of Armenian descent who was persecuted by the Soviet authorities.