Zori Balayan
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Zori Balayan (Armenian: Զորի Բալայան) born February 10, 1935 in Stepanakert is an Armenian novelist, journalist, sports-doctor, traveler and sports expert [1]. He awarded by the "Renowned master of the Arts" Armenian official title.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh. He graduated the Ryazan State Medical University in 1963, from 1971 to 1973 crossed the Kamchatka and Chokotskaya tundras with dog-sledges, traveling as far as the North Sea.
Balayan was participated in the Karabakh movement, in 1988 he and Armenian poet Silva Kaputikyan had a reception by Mikhail Gorbachev and discussed "the absence of Armenian-language television programs and textbooks in Nagorno-Karabakh schools" and other problems [2].
Balayan is a journalist of the "Literaturnaya Gazeta".
[edit] Interpol
The authorities in Azerbaijan allege that Balayan was involved in a terrorist bombing of the metro in Baku in 1994. General secretary of Interpol, in a letter to Balayan, stated that the agency considered the complaint politically motivated and that it had removed Balayan from its wanted list as a result[3].
[edit] Books
- My Kilikia, (Russian), Yerevan, 2004
- Zim Kilikia (Զիմ Կիլիկիա (Armenian)), Yerevan 2005
- Kilikia (Կիլիկիա (Armenian)), vols. 2 and 3, Yerevan 2006 - 2007
- Chasm, (Armenian and Russian), Yerevan, 2004
- Heaven and Hell (Armenian, Russian and English) Los Angeles, 1997, Yerevan, 1995
- Hearth, Moscow 1984, Yerevan 1981
- Between Two Fires, Yerevan 1979
- Blue roads, Yerevan 1975
- Required Man's opinion,(Russian) Yerevan 1974
[edit] References
- ^ Balayan's page at the Armenian Writer's Union official site
- ^ A Test of Change Explodes in Soviet, By F. Barringer with B. Keller, THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 11, 1988
- ^ Tony Halpin, "Ship Shape: Cilicia completes second leg of its historic journey around Europe ", ArmeniaNow, Issue #33 (155), September 02, 2005..
