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'''Zori Balayan''' ({{lang-hy|Զորի Բալայան}}) is an ] novelist, journalist, sports-doctor, traveller and sports expert <ref></ref>. He awarded by the "Renowned master of the Arts" Armenian official title. | ||
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Zori Balayan (Template:Lang-hy) is an Armenian novelist, journalist, sports-doctor, traveller and sports expert . He awarded by the "Renowned master of the Arts" Armenian official title.
Biography
He was born in 1935, in Stepanakert. He studied at the Ryazan Medicine institute, crossed the Kamchatka and Chokotskaya tundras with dog-sledges, travelling 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 .
Balayan is a journalist of the "Literaturnaya Gazeta".
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 latter to Balayan, stated that the agency considered the complaint politically motivated and that it had removed Balayan from its wanted list as a result.
Books
- My Kiligia, (Russian), Yerevan, 2004
- 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
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..