Gohar Markosjan-Käsper

Gohar Markosjan-Käsper (born in Yerevan) is an Armenian writer, currently residing in Tallinn, Estonia.

She was born into a family where father was an opera singer and mother a ballet-dancer. She graduated the university as a Russian philologist. Since 1990, she is married to Kalle Käsper, an Estonian writer and translator. Markosjan-Käsper's best-known work is probably the novel "Penelope" (translated into French, German - as "Penelope, die Listenreiche" [" [http://www.egotrip.de/bucher/03/0310_penelope.html Gohar Morkosjan-Kasper: "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Eine literarische Verneigung vor Joyce und Homer] " de icon] , Dutch and Spanish) her novels "Helena" and "The Caryatides" [ [http://magazines.russ.ru/zvezda/2003/8/goar-pr.html Text in Russian] ] have also been successful in Russia and the Western Europe. Her works have been characterized as magical realist. She writes in Russian; she is also member of the Estonian Union of Writers [ [http://www.ekl.ee/liikmed.html Eesti Kirjanike Liit ] ] ("Eesti Kirjanike Liit"). Before moving to Estonia, Gohar Markosjan used to work as a doctor in Yerevan.

Works

*"Penelope" (1998)
*"Helena" (2000)
*"The Caryatides" (2003)

References and notes

*http://www.bibliomonde.net/pages/fiche-auteur.php3?id_auteur=2065

Links

*http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/buechermarkt/165476/ de icon
*http://www.ekspress.ee/viewdoc/C8F1B66C2D6F2D10C225701300316B0C et icon
* [http://rus.postimees.ee/030806/glavnaja/kultura/3198.php Игорь Котюх "Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер."] ru icon