If you would like to join the event in our library, please email admin@armenianinstitute.org.uk as the places are limited.
Join us for a very special event, the London bookfair comes to Armenian Institute! We’ll be holding a very special, all-star panel of Armenian literary and cultural experts, hosted by AI Director Tatevik Ayvazyan. Our panel will discuss the state of Armenian publishing, in Eastern and Western Armenian and in other languages, and both in Armenia and worldwide, including the interests and reading patterns of the global Armenian public, current translation projects, the latest Armenian literary trends, digital publishing and digitisation - and more! The event will be blended in person at AI and on Zoom, for details see above.
Speakers:
Arevik Ashkharoyan is a literary agent with 10-year experience in publishing. Previously, she worked for international and local non-profit and non-trade organizations as administrative manager. In 2016 she established ARI Literary and Talent Agency, representing a dozen of writers of Armenian origin from all over the world. In 2017 she also founded ARI Literature Foundation, a non-profit organization implementing projects aimed at development of local book market, promotion of reading and writing in Armenia and enhancing international dialogue. Some of the project by ARI Foundation are Write in Armenia International Writing Campand Zabel International Women Writers Forum. ARI Foundation coordinates the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Series Project since 2018. Arevik is also the Secretary of PEN Armenian Center and an advisory board member at International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA).
Olivia Katrandjian is an Armenian American writer and journalist whose reporting has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the BBC, PBS, ABC News, Quartz, and Ms., among other outlets. Her fiction has been awarded second place in the National Literary Prize of Luxembourg, and long or shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize, the Cambridge Short Story Prize, and the Oxford-BNU Award. A 2021 Creative Armenia-AGBU fellow, Olivia is pursuing a graduate degree in creative writing at Oxford University and is the founder of the International Armenian Literary Alliance. Her work is forthcoming in an anthology of essays by voices from the Armenian diaspora, slated for publication with University of Texas Press in 2022.
Razmik Panossian is Director of the Armenian Communities Department at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Prior to his appointment in 2013, he worked at a Canadian governmental agency in Montreal devoted to international human rights promotion and democratic development. He has been a consultant at UNDP in NY. He obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2000, where he subsequently taught. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars, and various other academic publications on Armenian identity, diaspora and politics.