Ashot Beglarian

In 2004, the publishing house ‘Antares’ in Yerevan published the first collection of short stories and novels by Ashot Beglarian entitled ‘Another’s Account’, which included mainly works on the war topic; in 2007, the same publishing house published a collection of humorous, satirical and war stories entitled ‘Slap’, and in 2010 – a collection of novels and short stories entitled ‘Star Boy’.
In 2011–2013, humorous and war stories, as well as translations by Ashot Beglarian were published in all the 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 “Star Boy” and “Ordinary Heroes” novels.
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 2014, the publishing house “Sona” in Stepanakert published a collection of new works by the writer entitled ‘Ordinary Heroes’.
In 2015, the Canadian publishing house Altaspera (Toronto) published the collection ‘War does not Ask Surnames’, which included the author’s novels and short stories of different periods. 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 in his September issue the novel “Eagle” by Ashot Beglaryan.
In 2016, a fiction-documentary book by Ashot Beglaryan about a young and talented singer, Felix Karamyan, was published in Moscow.
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 in 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 Kiev.
In 2017, a German publishing house “Another solution” published Ashot Beglaryan’s collection of novels and short stories, entitled “Thirst of Life”.
In 2018, a collection of selected works by Ashot Beglaryan – Overcoming was published in Stepanakert on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the writer and the 30th anniversary of his activity.
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.

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.

Ashot Beglarian (Armenian: Աշոտ Բեգլարյան ; born August 1, 1968 in Stepanakert, NKR) is an Armenian writer, journalist and translator.

Ashot Beglarian was born in 1968 in the town of Stepanakert. He is the son of poet Ernest Beglarian.