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]
Life
Her father was an opera singer and mother a ballet-dancer. She graduated the Yerevan State Medical School as a doctor. She married Kalle Käsper, an Estonian writer and translator, in 1990. 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
- Penelope (1998)
- Helena (2000)
- The Caryatides (2003)
- Penelope Starts the Journey (2007)
- Mycenae, Rich in Gold (2009)
- Memento mori (2012)
References and notes
- "Gohar Marcossian". Bibliomonde.net. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Büchermarkt. Deutschlandfunk/Dradio.de. 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- Püve, Birgit (2005-06-02). "ELU ÜHES PÄEVAS: Gohar Markosjan-Käsper". Eesti Ekspress (in Estonian). Ekspress.ee. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- Игорь Котюх (2006-08-03). "Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер". Postimees. rus.postimees.ee. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- Gohar Morkosjan-Kasper: "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Eine literarische Verneigung vor Joyce und Homer Archived 2007-06-30 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- Я.Йняршпйн, Р.Рхунмнбю (August 2003). "Text in Russian". magazines.russ.ru. Archived from the original on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- "Eesti Kirjanike Liit". ekl
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External links
- http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/buechermarkt/165476/ (in German)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000502/http://www.ekspress.ee/viewdoc/C8F1B66C2D6F2D10C225701300316B0C (in Estonian)
- Игорь Котюх Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер. Postimees (in Russian)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180329214316/http://markosjan-kasper.com/ (in Russian)