Wrapping Up the 2024

As the holiday season approaches, we extend our sincere wishes on Christmas and New Year to all our dear colleagues, partners, and friends. May the warmth and joy of this magical time inspire new beginnings, multiply success stories, and strengthen the bonds of our collaboration. We wish you a festive season filled with peace, love, and happiness, and may 2025 bring exciting opportunities, and allow us all to celebrate the power of literature together.

Taking this opportunity, ARI Literary Agency would like to reflect on the journey it had over the past 12 months. It was a year full of creativity, growth, achievements and new partnerships. Armenian literary voices were raised during festivals, bookfairs and literary residencies abroad. It was a challenging year, but we did our best to face the challenges and overcome them successfully. All this was done with the firm belief that books have the power to change the world. Thus, we would like you to join us in our journey through 2024 and look back at the highlights of the passing year.

FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS AND RIGHTS DEALS

French edition of Ravens before Noah (Le village secret) by Susanna Harutyunyan (trans. Nazik Melik Hakobyan-Thierry) Les Argonautes Editeur

Albanian edition of Third Sex by Jean-Chat Tekgyozyan (trans. Fabjola Kati) OMBRA

English edition of The Flying African by Areg Azatyan (trans. Nazareth Seferian), Frayed Edge Press

Around 10 deals were signed with publishers for translations into Spanish, French, German, Greek, Tamil, Georgian, Polish, Bulgarian and Albanian. These titles will be published in 2025-2026.

PARTICIPATION AT INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIRS

The year started out with ARI Literary Agency’s founder Arevik Ashkharoyan’s visit to Chennai International Book Fair in the frames of a fellowship program in January. This was the fist visit to Chennai Book Fair and the result of it was a number of deals for Armenian writers to be translated into Tamil as well as Tamil writers to be published by Armenian publishers. Founder of ARI Literary Agency has also taken part at a panel discussion and presented Armenian publishing market.

In October 2024 ARI Literary Agency staff traveled to Frankfurt Buchmesse 2024 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.

ARI Literary Agency’s writers Aram Pachyan, Anush Kocharyan and Sargis Hovsepyan were among the speakers of the panel discussion “Looking for a Place – Armenian Literature in Europe”(follow the link for the full video) at the Frankfurt Studio.

Frankfurt Book Fair Event 2024, Jurgen Becker, Aram Pachyan, Tigran Amiryan, Anush Kocharyan, Sargis Hovsepyan
Arevik Ashkhraoyan at Chennai Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair 2024

NEWS ABOUT OUR AUTHORS

Anush Kocharyan participated in the Uppsala International Literary Festival in Sweden in March.

Anush Kocharyan was invited as a writer in residence at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin.

Anna Davtyan was a writer in residence at Iowa International Writing Program’s Fall residency.

Jean-Chat Tekgyozyan and Susanna Harutyunyan were featured at the UN WEEK-END À L’EST festival dedicated to Yerevan and participated in various events the most important of which were the presentation of their novels translated into French.

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PRESS

Aram Pachyan, Anna Davtyan, Anush Kocharyan and Jean-Chat Tekgyozyan were featured in the Armenian edition of Wasafiri magazine. You can order the magazine here

𝑾𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒊 𝟏𝟐𝟎: 𝑨𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒂(𝒏)𝒔 – 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

From poetry and fiction to newly released book reviews, art, and interviews – cover to cover – the Wasafiri 2024 winter special issue, Wasafiri 120: Armenia(n)s – Elevation, guest co-edited by Tatevik Ayvazyan and Naneh V Hovhannisyan, shines a light on modern Armenian identities and experiences. Alongside personal stories of love, loss, and memory, the volume speaks to current global issues – displacement, fragmentation, and conflict – all with eloquence, and all, ultimately, for elevation. This is your jukebox issue of contemporary Armenian writing, with varied content for varied tastes.

Wassafiri Armenian edition, Armenians: Elevation