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. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
^ Игорь Котюх (2006-08-03). "Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер". Postimees. rus.postimees.ee. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
^ Gohar Morkosjan-Kasper: "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Eine literarische Verneigung vor Joyce und Homer Template:De icon
^ Я.Йняршпйн, Р.Рхунмнбю (August 2003). "Text in Russian". magazines.russ.ru. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
^ "Eesti Kirjanike Liit". ekl.ee. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01. Retrieved 2010-01-24. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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[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. Retrieved 2010-01-24.

[4] Игорь Котюх (2006-08-03). "Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер". Postimees. rus.postimees.ee. Retrieved 2010-01-24.

[5] Gohar Morkosjan-Kasper: "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Eine literarische Verneigung vor Joyce und Homer Template:De icon

[6] Я.Йняршпйн, Р.Рхунмнбю (August 2003). "Text in Russian". magazines.russ.ru. Retrieved 2010-01-24.

[7] "Eesti Kirjanike Liit". ekl.ee. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01. Retrieved 2010-01-24. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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