page_title: Artashes Kalantarian
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Artashes Kalantarian / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Artashes Kalantaryan's plaque in YerevanՀայերեն: Արտաշես Քալանթարյանի հուշատախտակը Երևանում։
context_page_description: Artashes Piraghayi Kalantarian was an Armenian writer, publicist, journalist and playwright.
context_section_description: Artashes Kalantarian was born in Yerevan. He graduated from faculty of philology of the Yerevan State University specializing in journalism, where he used to crack jokes with lecturers. He worked in different positions in Sovatakan Hayastan, Yerekoyan Yerevan, Grakan tert and other periodicals. From 1970 to 1982 he worked at Armenian TV. He created and hosted My home is your home popular TV-program.
  He is an author of 15 books and numerous satiric articles and feuilletons, translated into Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian. His novel "Marathon" was sold out during few hours in 1969.
caption: Artashes Kalantarayan's plaque in Yerevan
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