Anahit Hayrapetyan
Anahit Hayrapetyan was born in 1981 in Armenia. Initially she studied computer science at the State Engineering University of Armenia, and in 2005 she participated in World Press Photo seminars. Currently she is studying at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Copenhagen. In 2002, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art published her first book of poems. In 2005, her second book Taboo was published, winning the Young Writer Award of the Writers Union of Armenia. Her poems have been published in Inknagir, Bnagir, Actual Art, Garunand Gretert magazines. Alongside writing she is engaged in photography. Her photos have been published by National Geographic Traveler, Eurasianet.org, Armenianow.com, Zaman, Ogoniok,and Newsweek. In 2006, she won the President's Prize in Armenia, as well as prizes for Eurasia Social Portrait 2007, Black Sea and Caucasus 2008, Europe and Asia 2009. See Anahit's blog here.
Read Claudiu Komartin's translations of Anahit's poetry in Romanian here
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Word Express in Scotland
9th - 15th August
See a new generation of talented poets and translators Raman Mundair,
Ryan van Wynkle, Marko Pogačar,
Found in Translation
"I’ve got this sickly taste in my mouth... "
an extract and video from Sian Melangell Dafydd's
The Third Thing
"Sitting up on the bed, you strain and plunge like a frogman among
wobbegong dorsal fins."
three poems from Radu Vancu