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. In 2010, Anahit Hayrapetyan participated in the Days and Nights of Literature festival in Romania . 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. Currently, she is combining her two interests and publish a bilingual book (in English and Armenian) about her pregnancy that will also include photos. See Anahit's blog here.
Read Claudiu Komartin's translations of Anahit's poetry in Romanian here
News
If you've been wondering what Word Express writers have been working on recently, you'll be pleased to hear that Owen Martell's novel 'Dyn Yr Eiliad' has been translated into Serbian by Milan Dobričić's Read the full story here.
Using photography and music from our multi-talented Word Express writer-travellers, we've put together this short slide show with music from Ivan Hristov's band Gologan.