Arpenik Charents
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Arpenik Charents (July 25, 1932, Yerevan - February 12, 2008, Yerevan) was an Armenian writer, literary critic, specialist on Charents studies. She is the daughter of great Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents.
After her parent's arrest in 1937 during the stalinist terror, she has been living in Kanaker children's home. She studied philology at Yerevan State University. Arpenik was one of the main iniciators and founders of Charents house-museum in Yerevan (also the chairwoman of the scientific council), recollected father's 6000-volume library, researched and spreaded the literary works and the life story of Yeghishe Charents all over the country. She writes also novels, short stories and memoirs about her sad childhood, and was a member of the Writers Union of Armenia.
[edit] Books
- The Unknown inside the Known, Yerevan, 2005
- My Universities, Yerevan, 2000
- The Prayers of Yeghishe Charents, Yerevan, 1999
- The Children's Home, Yerevan, 1994
