Interesting Facts About Marianna Hakobyan, Author of the Book “Do Not Change the Names” (Video)
03/10/2026
Journalist, Candidate of Philological Sciences and member of the Writers' Union of Armenia, Marianna Hakobyan recently presented her second book, “Do Not Change the Names.” Her first novel, “Cascade 6.15,” was published in 2021 and quickly became a bestseller. Hakobyan has worked as a news commentator for 14 years. Here are some interesting facts about the author.
Journalist, Candidate of Philological Sciences
Marianna Hakobyan studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Yerevan State University.
Graduate of the Council of Europe School of Political Studies
In 2020, she graduated from the Yerevan School of Political Studies, which operates under the Council of Europe.
News Commentator
She has been working as a news commentator for 14 years.
Member of the Writers’ Union
Hakobyan is a member of the Writers’ Union of Armenia and the author of six scientific articles.
First Novel: “Cascade 6.15”
Her debut novel, “Cascade 6.15,” published in 2021, became a bestseller.
In the Center of Stories
She loves life, constantly searches for stories, sometimes finds herself inside them, and eventually opens a new Word document to write.
Dreaming of the Nobel Prize
Among her long-term dreams is receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Loves to Read
Besides books, she reads almost everything she sees, from store windows to the ingredients on bottles of sunflower and olive oil.
Animal Lover
Over the years she has kept many animals, a snake, a hedgehog, a guinea pig, a skunk, fish and a cat. Currently she has two dogs: Bella and Luna.
Introvert
She describes herself as an introvert: she can spend days without speaking, finds it easier to express her thoughts in writing, and does not enjoy being around overly talkative people.
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After her mother’s death, journalist Lucy discovers two folders hidden in her mother’s office. Inside are notes about an incident in a Baghramyan Avenue apartment in 1999—an episode that should have become a criminal case, but two decades later resurfaces under the shadow of the statute of limitations, scrambling everyone’s moves and motives. Lucy begins investigating, convinced she’s chasing a story. She doesn’t yet realize she’s walking into a legacy—one that will force her to inhabit her mother’s worst memories. Step by step, the trail pulls her back to the same building, the same address, and the same questions her family buried for years. What will she uncover when the investigation turns toward her parents and their dark past? Are her mother’s manuscripts fiction—or a disguised personal diary? And the hardest question of all: does Lucy have the right to know everything her parents fought to conceal? A fast-paced investigative novel where the heroine finds answers she never meant to seek—and pays the price of learning them.
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