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Artashes Kartalyan

Artashes Piraghayi Kalantarian  ( Armenian :  Արտաշես Փիրաղայի Քալանթարյան , 16 September 1931 – 23 February 1991) was an  Armenian  writer, publicist, journalist and playwright. Artashes Kalantarian was born in  Yerevan . He graduated from faculty of philology of the  Yerevan State University  specializing in journalism, where he used to crack jokes with lecturers. He worked in different positions in  Sovatakan Hayastan ,  Yerekoyan Yerevan ,  Grakan tert  and other periodicals. From 1970 to 1982 he worked at Armenian TV. He created and hosted  My home is your home  popular TV-program. He is an author of 15 books  and numerous satiric articles and feuilletons, translated into Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian. His novel "Marathon" was sold out during few hours in 1969. He was married to Julietta Kalantaryan and had four children. He was a kind, tolerant and thoughtful person.

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