Yerevanian event of the EUPL 2023
At the center of the event was the novel “A Syrian Affair” – Armenia’s nomination of the EUPL 2023.
Lusine Kharatyan
Lusine Kharatyan is a Yerevan-based cultural anthropologist and fiction writer. Her writing is significantly influenced by her anthropological research and fieldwork. She is the author of a collection of short stories Dead end forget-me-not (2020) and the 2017 novel the oblique book.
Published with a monetary prize from the First Yerevan Book Fest (2017), her collection of short stories Dead end forget-me-not, was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2021. In 2019, Kharatyan was awarded a grant from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sport of Armenia for writing her second novel.
Lusine holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota (2004), General Diploma in Demography from Cairo Demographic Center (2000), and a Diploma of higher education in History/Socio-cultural Anthropology from Yerevan State University (1999).
Lusine Kharatyan is the President of our Women Writer’s Committee (since 2021).
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European Union Prize for Literature announces the 2023 nominees
PRESS RELEASE of EUPL announcing the 2023 nominees
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