Elda Grin

Elda Grin
Elda Grin
Native name	Էլդա Գրին
Born	10 March 1928; Tiflis (Georgia)
Died	27 October 2016 (aged 88)
Occupation	Writer, psychologist, professor, and legal expert
Nationality	Armenian
Education	Yerevan Russian Pedagogical Institute
Notable works	“A Night Sketch”, “My Garden”, “We Want to Live Beautifully

Elda Ashoti Grigoryan (Armenian: Էլդա Աշոտի Գրիգորյան; 10 March 1928 – 27 October 2016), known also as Elda Grin (Armenian: Էլդա Գրին) was an Armenian writer, psychologist, professor, and legal expert.

Biography[edit]

Grin was born in 1928 in Tiflis (Georgia). From 1943-47 she studied at Foreign Language Faculty of Yerevan Russian Pedagogical Institute. Grin was a Professor of psychology at Yerevan State University. She also published ten books of short stories, among them: “A Night Sketch” (1973), “My Garden” (1983), “We Want to Live Beautifully” (2000), and “Space of Dreams” (2004). In 2010 her short-story "The Hands"^[1] was published in Yerevan in a separate volume in 35 languages, including Icelandic, Luxembourgish, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew, etc. The Arabic version was translated by Harout Vartanian (an Armenian poet).^{[citation needed]}