Interview and book signing with the author Narine Abgrayan, To Keep on Living (interviewed by Zara Torlone with Margarit Ordukhanyan, both of whom translated this book into English). Free book copies will be distributed at the event. The book is coming out in April 2025 in commemoration of Armenian Genocide (April 24th).
Narine Abgaryan is a modern Russian-Armenian writer who used to live in Moscow. She recently left after speaking out vocally against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Born in 1971 in the city of Berd in Armenia, she moved to Moscow in 1993 to pursue a writing career. She made her debut with her first short story “Manunia” which attracted attention of Russian literary circles. Since then Abgaryan published numerous works and was a recipient of several prestigious awards and grants (in 2011 she made the long list of “Bol’shaya Kniga”; in 2015 she was one of the two laureates of the top Russian literary prize of Alexander Grin, to name a few). Her novel To Keep Living narrates the human story of the war on the Azerbajani and Armenian border.
Sponsored by the French, Italian, and CLassical Studies department, the Havighurst Center, and the Humanities Center
