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

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

References and notes
  1. "Gohar Marcossian". Bibliomonde.net. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  2. "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Büchermarkt. Deutschlandfunk/Dradio.de. 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  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 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  7. "Eesti Kirjanike Liit". ekl.ee. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01. Retrieved 2010-01-24. External link in |publisher= (help)
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