Edward Haghvedian was born in 1952 in Tehran, Iran to Iranian-Armenian parents. His family originally came from the Iranian city of Khomein in Markazi province of Iran. He has finished his elementary education in "National School of Aras" and his high school education, in the Persian-language schools called «Farokh-Manesh», «Paydar» and «Oloum». Thereafter in 1970, he migrated with his family from his birthplace's country Iran to Armenia and settled in the city of Vagharshapat.
Since 1980s, Haghverdian spent most of his time translating contemporary Persian literary works into Armenian language. He is the first person who translated the vast majority of modern Iranian literary works into Armenian and published them in Armenia and United States of America.
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of Iran, Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
