Karen Karslyan
Karen Karslyan is a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator and a literary theorist. He was born in Yerevan, Armenia. Started writing in 1999 and has been widely published since 2000. His works have appeared in a number of printed and virtual media, including literary periodicals and anthologies in Armenia, as well as the U.S., France, Canada, Australia, Russia and Georgia.
Karslyan's first book X Frames/Sec was published in 2003 as the 4th issue of Bnagir, an Armenian experimental literary journal, which was devoted to his literary works cover-to-cover. Karen Karslyan was declared the "Writer of the Year" by Armenia's public TV.
Karen Karslyan is a recipient of the Young Artists Award 2004 in the field of literature for his Password, a novel.
His first poetry book, which can loosely be translated from Armenian as Devil's Pen or Poet's Den or Writer's Unblock, a collection of 38 deformed hayrens (a form of medieval Armenian poetry) was published in June 2010 in Yerevan, Armenia.
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