Margarit Jessajan

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Margarit Jessajan

Margarit Jessajan ( Armenian Մարգարիտ Հենրիկի Եսայան ; born October 24, 1958 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian journalist and politician of the Republican Party of Armenia .

Life

Margarit Jessajan graduated from Yerevan State University in Armenian Language and Literature in 1982 . From 1983 to 1986 she wrote for the youth magazine Pionierruf , after which she was the political editor and commentator of Arawot (in German “Der Morgen”), the largest daily newspaper in Armenia. In between, from 1999 to 2001, she was involved with the radio station Freedom . Since 2011 she has been a lecturer at the Yerevan V. Bryusov State University for Languages ​​and Social Sciences .

Her novel Gyulunya , which was published by Antares in 2015, was also translated into English.

She is married and has three children.

Political commitment

On May 6, 2012, she was elected to the Armenian National Assembly on a list of the Republican Party of Armenia . In the National Assembly, she is vice-chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Public Affairs.

Awards

  • 2003: Thank you letter from the Armenian Ministry of Health
  • 2008: Journalist of the Year from De Facto magazine
  • 2010: Thank you letter from the anti-corruption program of the European Union
  • 2011: Prize for journalistic research of the Yerevan Press Club for binding and editing the book Tiezerakan .
  • 2012: Commemorative medal "20 Years of the Armenian Army" from the Ministry of Defense

Web links

Commons : Margarit Jessajan  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Galust Sahakyan Attends the Presentation of the Book “Gyulunya” . Article from April 29, 2015 on aysor.am (English)
  2. ↑ Members of the Committee for Human Rights and Public Affairs of the Armenian National Assembly (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jessajan, Margarit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Եսայան, Մարգարիտ Հենրիկի (Armenian); Yesayan, Margarit (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan