Barouyr Sevag (1924–1971)

Barouyr Sevag (1924–1971)

Armenian poet Barouyr Sevag (Ghazaryan) was born on January 26, 1924 in the village of Chanakhchi, where he received his primary and secondary education. In 1945, he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Yerevan State University. Afterwards, he went to Moscow, where he graduated from the Maxim Gorky Institute of World Literature and then started working as a senior professor at the Institute. In 1967, he received his PhD in Armenia for his doctoral thesis titled “Sayat Nova.” Barouyr Sevag had started writing at the age of 11. The majority of his numerous poems have been published several times both in Armenia and in the diaspora. Among other works, Barouyr Sevag is the author of “Immortals Command,” “Uncompromising Intimacy,” “Path of Love,” “Again With You,” “The Unsilenceable Belfry,” “When the Entire Country Competes,” “Man in the Palm,” “Sayat Nova,” “Let There be Light,” and “Your Acquaintances” (the latter is addressed to children). He was killed in 1971 in a car crash.