[1] Sero Khanzadyan was born in 1915 to a peasant family in the town of Goris located in the district of Zangezur (modern-day Syunik Province of Armenia).

Sero Khanzadyan published his first short story, titled Chor tapě ("The Dry Field"), in 1934 in the newspaper Karmir Zangezur.

In an interview, Khanzadyan stated that he came up with the idea of writing the story about Mkhitar Sparapet and Davit Bek, two early 18th-century Armenian rebel commanders, while he was still away at war.

[5] Sero Khanzadyan left a great legacy in the field of Armenian literature, which was inspired by Soviet notions and ideas of internationalism, strong ties with the folk culture and tradition.

In his latest years of his life, during an interview given to the Public TV of Armenia, he strongly criticized Bolshevik nationalities policy in the early 1920s and the decision to attach the regions of Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan to Soviet Azerbaijan.