Lika (Anzhelika) Zakaryan was born in 1994 in Stepanakert, Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh. She studied Political Science at Artsakh State University and finished with a Master’s degree. Lika is a journalist, who started to write and post her diary during the Artsakh War in 2020, living through the shelling in bunkers. The diary became widely read. In 2021 Lika with the support of Creative Armenia NGO, published the diaries as the book 44 Days: Diary from an Invisible War”. Also, she co-wrote the documentary on the Artsakh war in 2020 Invisible Republic. Her film was screened at various film festivals in the USA and Europe, at the US Capitol and the European Parliament. At the moment she is working as a freelance journalist and has her podcast series Muklimandil at Civilnet, where she collects human stories in the Artsakh dialect to preserve the stories and the dialect.
