![]() In the later Soviet period she frequently addressed political and other issues.īorn Sirvard Kaputikyan on 20 January 1919 to parents from the historically Armenian-populated city of Van (in Western Armenia, present-day Turkey), she was raised in Yerevan, the Armenian capital. Besides Armenian she also wrote in Russian and many of her works were translated to other languages. By the 1950s she had established herself as a significant literary figure in Soviet Armenia. Her first collection of poems were published in the mid-1940s. ![]() She bridged the gap between nationalism and communism. ![]() Although a member of the Communist Party, she was a noted advocate of Armenian nationalist causes. One of the best-known Armenian writers of the twentieth century, she is recognized as "the leading poetess of Armenia" and "the grand lady of twentieth century Armenian poetry". Silva Kaputikyan ( Armenian: Սիլվա Կապուտիկյան 20 January 1919 – 25 August 2006) was an Armenian poet and political activist. Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.
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