Today great Armenian poetess Silva Kaputikyan would celebrate her 93rd anniversary.

Silva Kaputikyan was born in Yerevan on January 20th, 1919. She is a 20th century prominent Armenian poetess, writer, academian and public activist.

Born to parents that were originally from Van, she lived in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, her entire life, and died there of a stroke, aged 87. Her works were translated by Bulat Okudjava, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akhmadulina, Desanka Maksimović and others.

She was awarded the "Renowned Master of Arts" Armenian SSR (1970) and "Renowned Worker of Arts" Georgian SSR (1980) official titles, State prizes of USSR (1952) and Armenian SSR (1988), "Nosside" Italian prize, orders of St. Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia) and "Knyaginia Olga" (Ukraine). She was a member of International PEN.

In February 1988, during a reception in the Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev said that he and his wife, Raisa, greatly admired Kaputikyan's poetry.

Kaputikyan appeared as herself in the 1992 documentary, Parajanov: The Last Spring, about Sergei Parajanov, a film-maker of Armenian descent who was persecuted by the Soviet authorities.