Gohar Markosjan-Käsper

Gohar Markosjan-Käsper (Armenian: Գոհար Մարկոսյան-Կասպեր, born in Yerevan) is an Armenian writer, currently residing in Tallinn, Estonia.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Her father was an opera singer and mother a ballet-dancer. She graduated the university as a Russian philologist. Since 1990, she has been married to Kalle Käsper, an Estonian writer and translator. Markosjan-Käsper's best-known work is probably the novel Penelope (translated into French, German - as Penelope, die Listenreiche,[5] Dutch and Spanish)her novels Helena and The Caryatides[6] have also been successful in Russia and the Western Europe. Her works have been characterized as magical realist. She writes in Russian; she is also member of the Estonian Union of Writers[7] (Eesti Kirjanike Liit). Before moving to Estonia, Gohar Markosjan used to work as a doctor in Yerevan.

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References and notes

  1. ↑ "Gohar Marcossian". Bibliomonde.net. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  2. ↑ "Deutschlandfunk - Büchermarkt - Penelope, die Listenreiche". Dradio.de. 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  3. ↑ Püve, Birgit (02.06.2005). "ELU ÜHES PÄEVAS: Gohar Markosjan-Käsper". Eesti Ekspress (in Estonian). Ekspress.ee. Retrieved 2010-01-24. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑ Игорь Котюх (03.08.2006). "Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер". Postimees. Rus.postimees.ee. Retrieved 2010-01-24. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ↑ Gohar Morkosjan-Kasper: "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Eine literarische Verneigung vor Joyce und Homer (German)
  6. ↑ Я.Йняршпйн, Р.Рхунмнбю. "Text in Russian". Magazines.russ.ru. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  7. ↑ ZOOM,www.zoom.ee. "Eesti Kirjanike Liit". Ekl.ee. Retrieved 2010-01-24.

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