Ashot Beglarian
Ashot Beglarian (; born August 1, 1968) is an Armenian writer, journalist, and translator. Biography. Ashot Beglarian was born in 1968 in the town of Stepanakert. He is the son of poet Ernest Beglarian. He graduated with a degree in literature from the Russian Language and Literature Department at Yerevan State University. He had his first work published at 19 years of age. He writes mainly in Russian. Ashot Beglarian's short stories and essays were published in the literary and public-political journals as well as online in Stepanakert and Yerevan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on -Don, Novocherkassk, Tomsk and other Russian cities, as well as in Abkhazia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, the United States, and others. Based on A. Beglarian's short story 'The House that Fired', the first short feature film was shot in the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR). He is a professional journalist. In different periods, he worked as a correspondent for the Yerevan newspapers "Voice of Armenia" and "New Time", the Armenian News Agencies SNARK and "ArmInfo", the British Institute for War and Peace, the Russian Federal Agency REGNUM, Interfax Information Services Group, the magazine for  the RF State Duma members "The Caucasus Expert", a series of Armenian magazines published in Russia, and others. Between December 1998 and September 2013, he worked at the NKR Foreign Ministry. In October 2013, Ashot Beglarian was appointed Assistant to the NKR President. Works. Periodicals. In 2011–2013, humorous and war stories, as well as translations by Ashot Beglarian, were published in all three issues of the 'South Caucasus' regional almanac published in the frameworks of a special project. In 2013, the oldest Ukrainian public-political, literary, and art magazine "Vsesvit" ('Universe') translated into Ukrainian and published as a special block  Ashot Beglarian's novels and short stories about the Karabakh War. In 2015 "Vsesvite" republished the novels "Star Boy" and "Ordinary Heroes". In May 2014, he won the second regional competition after Vitaly Guzanov held in the Nizhny Novgorod region, in the nomination of the best journalistic material on the patriotic topic 'The Tragedy of the Time. Conflicts. People'. He was awarded a diploma and a commemorative medal after Guzanov. In 2014, the Slovak edition "Revue Svetovej Literatury" ('The Review of the World Literature') published Ashot Beglarian's short story "Santa Claus" translated into the Slovak language. In 2015, the  Moscow publishing house 'Tparan' published a collection of journalistic works and articles of the war years entitled 'Karabakh Diary' (the book was illustrated by Gagik Siravyan). In 2015, the Armenian nationwide weekly paper "Vahan" ("Shield"), issued in Plovdiv in the Bulgarian language, published "Eagle" in its September issue. Ashot Beglarian is a translator from Armenian into Russian and editor of dozens of books. He is a member of two World Festivals of Youth and Students – in Cuba (1997) and Algeria (2001, head of the NKR delegation). In 2017, Ashot Beglaryan's story ‘Vivifying Laughter’ was published in the ‘Shadows of  Being’ collection of works by Russian-speaking Armenian writers issued in Kyiv. The short story "Mother" by Ashot Beglaryan is included in the textbook "The Russian Language. Dialogue of Cultures" for the 12th grades of the high schools of Armenia (humanitarian specialization grades) republished in 2019. In 2020, the anthology of historical and military prose "A Book about Warriors and Wars", published in Yerevan, included Ashot Beglaryan’s short story "Salvaged Melody". In 2021, the collection of fiction-documentary essays by Ashot Beglaryan “The Faces of Artsakh” was published in “Artsakh” publishing house in Yerevan. Participation in the Karabakh War . Ashot Beglarian participated in the battles for the defense of the NKR borders; he was heavily wounded during the battles.