Gohar Markosjan-Käsper (Armenian: Գոհար Մարկոսյան-Կասպեր; 14 July 1949, Yerevan – 15 September 2015, Barcelona) was an Armenian writer who lived in Tallinn, Estonia.
Biography
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, Dutch and Spanish) . Her novels Helena and The Caryatides 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.
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 24 January 2010.
- "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Büchermarkt. Deutschlandfunk/Dradio.de. 20 January 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 6 July 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- "Eesti Kirjanike Liit". ekl.ee. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
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)
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