Gohar Markosjan-Käsper

Gohar Markosjan-Käsper (Armenian: Գոհար Մարկոսյան-Կասպեր; 14 July 1949 – 15 September 2015) was an Armenian writer who lived in Tallinn, Estonia.[1][2][3][4]

Life

Her father was an opera singer and mother a ballet-dancer. She graduated the Yerevan State University as a Russian philologist. Since 1990, she has been married to Kalle Käsper, an Estonian writer and translator. Before moving to Estonia, Gohar Markosjan used to work as a doctor in Yerevan.

Work as a writer

Markosjan-Käsper's best-known work is probably the novel Penelope (translated into French, German - as Penelope, die Listenreiche,[5] Dutch and Spanish) . Her novels Helena and The Caryatides[6] have also been successful in Russia and Western Europe. Her works have been characterized as magical realist.

She wrote in Russian. Markosjan-Käsper was also a member of the Estonian Writers' Union.[7]

Bibliography

References and notes

  1. ↑ "Gohar Marcossian". Bibliomonde.net. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  2. ↑ "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Büchermarkt. Deutschlandfunk/Dradio.de. 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  3. ↑ Püve, Birgit (2005-06-02). "ELU ÜHES PÄEVAS: Gohar Markosjan-Käsper". Eesti Ekspress (in Estonian) (Ekspress.ee). Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  4. ↑ Игорь Котюх (2006-08-03). "Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер". Postimees (rus.postimees.ee). Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  5. ↑ Gohar Morkosjan-Kasper: "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Eine literarische Verneigung vor Joyce und Homer (German)
  6. ↑ Я.Йняршпйн, Р.Рхунмнбю (August 2003). "Text in Russian". magazines.russ.ru. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  7. ↑ "Eesti Kirjanike Liit". ekl.ee. Retrieved 2010-01-24. External link in |publisher= (help)

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