Born in Artik , Metakse authored many popular books including poem collections ( '' Youth '' , '' Female Heart '' , and '' A Conversation with the World '' ) . In 2006 she published '' The Woman of the Fate '' , an anthology of her selected works . Her poetry has been translated into English , French , Japanese , Bulgarian , Serbian , Spanish and other languages by Bella Akhmadulina , Desanka Maksimović , Diana Der Hovanessian and others . After the 1988 Armenian earthquake she became the vice-president of " Motherhood " benevolent fund , supporting female members of the Armenian Army during the Karabakh War . She subsequently authored a memoire entitled '' How I Saw Artsakh ''
1988 Armenian earthquake
1988 Armenian earthquake
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