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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..