ANI ASATRYAN

Ani Asatryan is a writer of the Generation Independence and a “text artist”.

Her first untitled book “    ” was published in 2014 and is a conceptual-Dadaist collection of short stories and essays. It was a collection of avant-garde literature, which included works written at the age of 19-21 and included surreal short pieces and which was published fully deleted. Nevertheless, the full printrun of the book ran out on the day of the presentation and became known in media as “a not-for-reading book”. Her short story I’m not going to die is included in the Academic Curriculum at the American University of Armenia. Ani was Resident Artist at Ruhrtriennaly – Festival of Arts, Literature and Theater in the Ruhr Area, Germany in 2014.