Interview... Shmavon Azatyan
In May, 2017 we were able to interview Shmavon Azatyan and obtained the following three answers that help us understand what his main beliefs are. Shmavon Azatyan was born in 1976, Yerevan, Armenia. He got his Diploma in English Language and Foreign Literatures at Yerevan State University (1993-1998). What's your main motivation to write? It is a natural feeling, or a desire. I haven't been taught or told to write. I get inspired by people around me, by what they do, think, how they behave and react in different situations. I like expressing my views of human nature in writing. When and how did you feel the first impulse to write? After I fell in love as a teenager. At that time I wrote poems. And then at an older age, I felt the desire to write fiction after I read John Updike and William Faulkner. Do you think a writer separates life experiences from his/her writing? A writer can separate these experiences, but it depends on what the writer wants to do with the piece in qu...