ANNA DAVTYAN
Anna Davtyan is a poet, fiction writer and playwright. She studied English language and literature at Yerevan State University, and then pursued photography studies at Caucasus Media Institute. Davtyan is a literary translator with a focus on contemporary literature, and working both to and from English. She is the author of an Armenian-English bilingual book of poetry entitled Book of Gratitude (Yerevan, 2012). Anna is also the winner of annual Yerevan Book Fest prize in the category best fiction awarded in 2019. She currently teaches creative writing at TUMO Center for Creative Technologies.
Davtyan’s dramaturgy piece “A Shipload of Carnations for Hrant Dink” was staged by the German theater Krefeld und Monchengladbach in Germany, premiered in September, 2016.
Anna Davtyan’s novel Khanna, published in 2020, became a sensation and a new word in modern Armenian literature.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bouqet («Բուկետ»), collection of works, Metro publishing, 2023
Khanna («Խաննա»), novel, Metro publishing, 2020
Book of Gratitude, poetry, Actual Art, 2012
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
circling around you, always around you, two poems, English translation – Circumference Magazine, US
Hold the Freedom Door, Hodor, essay, Armenian, English, German – Literarisches Colloquium Berlin Diplomatique, Germany
It Will Always Be Sung, short story, English translation – Los Angeles Review of Books, USA
Wide Shot, short story, English translation – Words Without Borders, USA
An extract from the novel Khanna, English translation – Asymptote, UK
