Hamo Sahyan

Hamo Sahyan (Համո Սահյան, real name Hmayak Sahaki Grigoryan; April 14, 1914 – July 17, 1993) was an Armenian poet and translator.

Biography
Hamo Sahyan was born on April 14, 1914, in the village of Lor in the Sisian district of the present-day Syunik region. Later, the literary name was formed with the abbreviation of the name and the beginning of the patronymic.

In 1927, he moved to Baku to live with his uncle. In 1935, he entered and graduated from the Linguistic faculty of the Baku Pedagogical Institute in 1939. Between 1939 and 1941, he worked as a literary employee in the Baku magazine "Soviet Writer". During the Great Patriotic War, he served in the navy as a sailor of the Caspian Fleet. Having returned from the 1945-1951 war he worked as a literary employee in the Baku newspaper "Communist" in Armenian.

In 1951 he moved to Yerevan. Between 1951 and 1954 he worked as the head of the department in the Yerevan newspaper "Avangard", and between 1954 and 1955 he was again the head of the department in the magazine "Vozni". Between 1965 and 1967, he was the editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta. In the following decades, he was mainly engaged in literary work.

The first collection of poems by Sahyan, entitled "On the Edge of the Gate" «Որոտանի եզերքին» was published in 1946. In recent years, the cult of Stalin's personality has published three unsuccessful poetry collections. Later he published the collections "On high"«Բարձունքի վրա» (1955), "Nairyan Dalar Bardi"«Նաիրյան դալար բարդի» (1958), "Armenia in Songs"«Հայաստանը երգերի մեջ» (1962), "Before sunset"«Մայրամուտից առաջ» (1964), "Song of stones" Քարափների երգը (1968).

In 1972 the collection "Open Sesame" was published, for which Sahyan was awarded the State Prize of the Armenian SSR. During the 1970s and 1980s the collections "Evening bread" «Իրիկնահաց» (1977), "Green-red autumn" «Կանաչ-կարմիր աշուն» (1980) and "Mint flower" «Դաղձի ծաղիկ» (1986) were also published. In 1998, a collection of typical poems by Hamo Sahyan, "Don't Let Me Go"«Ինձ բացակա չդնեք», was posthumously published. He did translations of Pushkin, Yesenin, Garcia Lorca, and others. He died on July 17, 1993, in Yerevan. The remains are buried in the Komitas Pantheon.

About Hamo Sahyan
"Hamo Sahyan was the correct man, he played and embarrassed himself during the game, he fought during his fight, he took a long time to realize that he looked like authentic literature, and he withdrew during the withdrawal. Hrant Matevosyan"

"This poet, Hamo Sahyan, comes from quails that fell in one of the Zangezur gorges. No, these are not just landscapes that Sagyan brought to our poetry, in the folds of these landscapes, in his largest layers, there is a movement of a just and kind, great and noble soul, the whole history of the soul, and a true poem is nothing more than the history of the soul hidden in the depths of images."

- Vahagn Davtyan

Hamo Sahyan's poetry continues to nourish readers, heals their wounded nerves and souls.

Razmik Davoyan