KARINE KHODIKYAN
Karine Khodikyan is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, fiction writer and journalist. She was the editor of fiction and poetry division at Garun magazine for more than 12 years, and has been the editor-in-chief of Grankat Tert since 2011. She was the Vice Minister of Culture and is currently a TV host of Between You and Me show at Public Television. Khodikyan’s plays were staged in Armenia, USA, Russia and Ukraine. She has published two books of plays and a book of short stories and is working on her irony detective novel.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Door Was Open («Մեծ եռագրություն»), short stories, Armav, volume 2, 2017
Big Trilogy («Մեծ եռագրություն»), plays, VMV print, volume 2, 2014
Big Trilogy (“Մեծ եռագրություն”)plays, VMV print, volume 1, 2013
My classics («Իմ դասականները»), plays, self-published, 2011
I Am Returning, Forget («Վերադառնում եմ, մոռացեք»), audiobook, self-published, 2011
Plays, English edition, Van Arian, Yerevan, 2008թ
Time to Play, («Խաղի ժամանակը»), Union of Writers of Armenia, Yerevan, 2004
Two Plays, («Երկու պիես»), Van Arian, 2003
The Street of the Dead Love («Մեռյալ սիրո փողոցը»), short stories and a play, Apollo, Yerevan, 2001
Plays («Պիեսներ»), Apollon, Yerevan, 1997
AWARDS
2015 – Levon Shant Award of the Writers’ Union of Armenia for the collection of plays
2015 – Stories Without Borders International Drama Competition (Germany) 1st prize for Lottery and The Women of War plays
2015 – Armenian Writers Union Prize, The Best Writer of 2014
2014 – Armenian Writers Union Prize, The Best Writer of 2013
2013 – The Armenian in the 21st Century Prize awarded by Armenian International Congress, Union of Armenian in Russia and Writers’ Union of Armenia for the play One Hour of Memory
2013 – Golden Apricot international film festival, Best Screenplay, Interrupted Childhood
2012 – UN Population Fund Forum Theatre Award for Short Plays, 1st prize for Colors of Rainbow
2011 – Levon Shant Award of the Writers’ Union of Armenia for My Classics collection of plays
2010 – Resurrection of the Present Modern Drama 1st International Festival, 3rd prize for The One That Doesn’t Exist
2009 – Armenian Democratic Liberal Party Awards, Golden Medal for the achievements as the founder of Drama magazine and for promotion of contemporary playwrights
2006 – International Drama Festival Manila, Philippines, Lauriat for Second Will
2005 – Armono International Drama Festival, best play award for Tract about the Handkerchief
2004 – Armono International Drama Festival, 2nd prize for Second Will
2003 – Fridtjof Nansen Medal for the development of the national drama
2002 – Armenian Writers Union prize for the best play for How to Marry a Man, (staged as Woman Under the Rain)
2002 – Artist prize of Sundukian Theater and Yerevan Municipality for supporting the development of national drama
1999 – Golden Cane state literary prize for the collection of plays
1998 – Ministry of Culture and Paradise Company awards for the best short film for The Last Gypsy
1997 – UN Yerevan Office international award for the best publicity article for The Participants of the Theater of the Absurd
1997 – Golden Pen awards of the Union of Armenian Journalists
PLAYS
For the list of plays by Karine Khodikyan, please visit her Talent page.
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