Gohar Markosjan-Käsper

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

Biography

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Her father was an opera singer and her mother, a ballet-dancer. She graduated from Yerevan State Medical University and married Kalle Käsper, an Estonian writer and translator, in 1990. Before moving to Estonia, Gohar Markosjan worked as a doctor in Yerevan.

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

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  • Penelope (1998)
  • Helena (2000)
  • The Caryatides (2003)
  • Penelope Starts the Journey (2007)
  • Mycenae, Rich in Gold (2009)
  • Memento mori (2012)

References and notes

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  1. ^ "Gohar Marcossian". Bibliomonde.net. Retrieved 24 January 2010.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Büchermarkt. Deutschlandfunk/Dradio.de. 20 January 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  3. ^ Püve, Birgit (2 June 2005). "ELU ÜHES PÄEVAS: Gohar Markosjan-Käsper". Eesti Ekspress (in Estonian). Ekspress.ee. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  4. ^ Игорь Котюх (3 August 2006). "Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер". Postimees. rus.postimees.ee. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  5. ^ Gohar Morkosjan-Kasper: "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Eine literarische Verneigung vor Joyce und Homer Archived 2007-06-30 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
  6. ^ Я.Йняршпйн, Р.Рхунмнбю (August 2003). "Text in Russian". magazines.russ.ru. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  7. ^ "Eesti Kirjanike Liit". ekl.ee. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
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