Metakse
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Metakse or Metakse Poghosian (), December 23, 1926 – August 10, 2014, Yerevan) was an Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist. She was a member of the Advisory Board of the Writers Union of Armenia.
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- Born
- 1928
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Urishi artsʻunkʻnerě
- Chstikě
- Menkʻ enkʻ u menkʻ
- V obʺi͡atii͡akh zhizni
- Serě havat ē
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- Person.name
- Metakse
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- Person.birth_name
- Metakse Poghosian
- Person.birth_place
- Artik, Shirak Province
- Person.death_place
- Yerevan
- Person.occupation
- poet, writer, translator and public activist
- Person.known_for
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Writers Union of Armenia
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Arevshat
- Place of death
- Yerevan
- Child
- Lilit
- Occupation
- translator
- Educated at
- Armenian State Pedagogical University
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Armenian
- Participant in
- Karabakh movement
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- Metakse 3.jpg
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- 2014-00-00
- date of birth
- 1928-00-00
- member of
- Writers Union of Armenia
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- Metakse
- birth name
- Մետաքսե Սերոբի Պողոսյան
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Metakse or Metakse Poghosian (), December 23, 1926 – August 10, 2014, Yerevan) was an Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist. She was a member of the Advisory Board of the Writers Union of Armenia.
== Biography == Born in Artik, Metakse authored many popular books including poem collections (Youth, Female Heart, and A Conversation with the World). In 2006 she published The Woman of the Fate, an anthology of her selected works. Her poetry has been translated into English, French, Japanese, Bulgarian, Serbian, Spanish and other languages by Bella Akhmadulina, Desanka Maksimović, Diana Der Hovanessian and others. After the 1988 Armenian earthquake she became the vice-president of "Motherhood" benevolent fund, supporting female members of the Armenian Army during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. She subsequently authored a memoir entitled How I Saw Artsakh. thumb|Plaque to Metakse on Tigran Mets avenue, Yerevan She was in close relations with the famous Armenian poets Hovhannes Shiraz and Paruyr Sevak. Artem Sargsyan called her "one of the most prominent figures of modern Armenian poetry".
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