Topic: Literature

NEW YORK — The Columbia University Armenian Center will host the Anahid Literary Prize Award Ceremony on Monday, March 30, at 4:15 p.m. at Faculty House, located at 64 Morningside[...]

YEREVAN — On February 17, at Yerevan’s Tekeyan Center, the book launch of the Armenian translation of public figure and publicist Jean-Varoujan Sirapian’s Palu–Paris: An Armenian’s Journey took place. The[...]

NEW YORK — Poet, classic scholar, and translator Aaron Poochigian has won the 2025 Anahid Literary Prize. The Anahid Literary Prize is a significant award for emerging Armenian-American writers, established[...]

YEREVAN-MULHOUSE, France — Swiss-French writer Roland Godel (born in 1958, Geneva) has been working as a journalist for more than 15 years. In 1999, he joined the State of Geneva[...]

Armen Melikian’s 2023 novel, Expraedium, is a beguiling piece of work, part Joyce, part Orwell, part Pynchon, with a smattering of Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange thrown in for good measure.[...]

For over three decades, Yerevan-based translator Aram Ohanian has been “spoiling” Russian-speaking readers with his high-quality translations form English-language literature. However, he stands out among his colleagues for his[...]

HAMILTON, N.Y. — Peter Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate will be published in Tamil by the Thaddagam Press in Chennai later this year, and Balakian went to the historic south[...]

LOS ANGELES — The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) has awarded $2,500 to Lori Yeghiayan Friedman for her work-in-progress, How to Survive a Genocide, and $3,000 to Taline Voskeritchian and[...]

By Harry Keyishian Special to the Mirror-Spectator Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian was born in Ruse, Bulgaria in 1895. His father, Sarkis Kouyoumdjian, had established a successful import company in the city[...]

WESTWOOD, Calif. — On April 16, 18, and 23, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian read at Claremont McKenna College, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Fresno State respectively.[...]