A YEAR SHAPED BY STORIES THAT MATTERED
As we approach the end of the year, we would like to share our warmest greetings with all our partners, collaborators, and friends. May the holidays bring you calm, inspiration, and moments that spark new ideas for the year to come.
For ARI Literary Agency, 2025 has been a year filled with growth, inspiration, and new horizons. Our authors travelled, our books reached new audiences, and Armenian literature found its place in conversations around the world. We forged new alliances, participated in international events, and continued to promote voices that deserve to be heard. It wasn’t always easy, but each challenge pushed us to grow and reaffirm our commitment to the promotion of Armenian literature worldwide.
As we step into 2025, we’d like to share some of the moments that defined our year.
Let us take you through the story of 2025, a year shaped by words, collaborations, and a shared belief in the transformative power of literature.
FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS AND RIGHTS DEALS
Aram Pachyan’s short story Robinson was included in the special edition of a short story collection which will be released at Chennai International Book Fair 2025. The edition is intended to showcase the global collaborations of Indian publishing house as well as CIBF’s theme “Bringing the World to Tamil”.
The Spanish edition of Susanna Harutyunyan’s novel Ravens Before Noah has been published by Armaenia Editorial (translator Vartan Matiossian).
The Georgian edition of Aram Pachyan’s novel PF has been published by Sulakauri Publishing House (translator Asya Darbinyan)
The Greek edition of the Fleeting City by Jean-Chat (Hovhannes) Tekgyozyan was published by Vakxikon Publishing House.
Over 10 deals were signed with publishers including French, German, Greek, Tamil, Polish, Bulgarian. These titles will be published in 2026-2027.
NEW BOOKS
In September 4th editions of Aram Pachyan’s short story collection Robinson and novel Goodbye, Bird were published by Edge Publishing House.
In October Susanna Harutyunyan’s new novel To Die Beforehand and the 3rd edition of the novel Ravens Before Noah were published by Edge Publishing House.
In November Sargis Hovsepyan’s new novel You Die Today I Die Tomorrow was published by Metro Publishing House.
PARTICIPATION AT INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIRS
The year started out with ARI Literary Agency’s founder Arevik Ashkharoyan’s visit to Leipzig book fair where she moderated the panel discussion with Katharina Goerig, Head of the Literature and Translation Grant Programme at the Goethe-Institut, Kristina Raßmann, from International Cooperation Unit of the Leipzig City Administration and Anush Kocharyan, ARI Literary Agency’s writer.
On June 15th Arevik Ashkharoyan visited the annual Lisbon Book fair. Thanks to collaboration between the Creative Europe Desks of Armenia and Portugal, she had the opportunity to connect through a carefully curated program of B2B meetings, professional exchange and cultural experience. The event brought together publishers and agents from different corners of Europe, fostering real dialogue and opening doors to new collaborations and ideas.
In August, Arevik Ashkharoyan traveled to Edinburgh International Book Festival after being selected to participate in the Momentum Delegate Program.
In September Ashkharoyan was invited to the FILIT Chișinău, the special edition of a Romanian Literary Festival in Moldova. She was on the panel with acclaimed writers Andrei Kurkov from Ukraine, Lorina Balteanu form Moldova, Piotr Pogorzelski from Poland and Radu Vancu from Romania as well as literary critic and translator Gaga Lomidze from Georgia.The conversation focused on the dynamics of literature, multilingualism and cultural management, exploring the role of Chisinau as a bridge between East and West.
In October 2024 ARI Literary Agency staff traveled to Frankfurt Buchmesse 2025 to meet publishers and agents, represent the catalogue of Armenian writers, establish new cooperations and bring the latest highlights of world literature to the Armenian market.
NEWS ABOUT OUR AUTHORS
Several of our writers Anush Kocharyan, Lusine Khartyan and Jean-Chat Tekgyozyan were selected as writers in residence at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) in February 2025.
Anush Kocharyan was also selected for Residency Exchange Leipzig-Yerevan Program from March 2-30, 2025 at the historical Hanns Eisler House. The residency was a mutual program of the City of Leipzig and the City of Yerevan in cooperation with the Goethe-Zentrum in Armenia.
Susanna Harutyunyan was invited to the Book Festival in Nancy, France from March 28-30 and participated in the meetings and discussions with Georgian, Greek, Iranian, Palestinian and Bosnian writers.
On May 17, 2025 Armen Ohanyan was invited to 100+10 Armenian Allegories festival of Armenian culture at Gorki Theater in Berlin to take part in a panel discussion.
In June 2025, Susanna Harutyunyan was invited to Madrid to take part in the presentation of the Spanish edition of her novel La Aldea Escondida (Ravens Before Noah) which was organized within the framework of Madrid Book Fair by the publisher Armaenia Editorial.
AWARDS
On January 15, a passionate literary audience gathered at the AGBU premises in Paris to attend the final stage of the NAM (Nouvelles d’Armenie magazine) prize, which took place with the support of the Ile-de-France Region. Susanna Harutyunyan was awarded the prize for Le Village Secret (English title Ravens before Noah) published by Editions Les Argonautes.
Lusine Kharatyan has been awarded the Saroyan Prize for her short story #America_place Pregnant. The award was presented in the framework of the Yerevan Book Festival 2025, celebrating outstanding literary voices that bring fresh perspectives and originality to contemporary literature.
NEW AUTHORS
Hayk Hovyan joined our list of Armenian contemporary authors with his latest novel Gisane՛․
Lilit Altunyan, children’s books author and illustrator also joined our list of authors.