Harut Kbeyan
Harut Kbeyan is an Armenian film-maker, script writer and author of The Hostages of Sunset (Armenian), 2001. He has worked as a location manager and penned scripts for productions such as The Second Sunday of the Spring - an independent film by Hrant Movsisyan. In 2004 Chnchik,a film for which Kbeyan wrote the script, won the AVANTI Feature Film Award .
News
Word Express writer Ognjen Spahić from Montenegro will be visiting London for events with his UK publisher, Istros Books, from the 15th - 18th of May. See the Istros Books website for more details.
This year's Prague Book Fair - Svet Knihy - is focusing on literature the Black Sea region. Word Express writers Ivan Hristov (Bulgaria), Zaza Koshkadze (Georgia) and Pelin Özer (Turkey) will talk about their Balkan literary journey and read their work at the gala evening. Go to the Literature Across Frontiers website for more details.
Word Express interviews Georgian poet Zaza Koshkadze, and talks to Owen Martell and Milan Dobricic about translating and publishing Owen's novel into Serbian after meeting on the Word Express journey. All on the Travel Blog.