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Vahram
An Armenian writer, screenwriter, and journalist whose fiction helped bring contemporary Armenian literature to wider readers. His novel Landslide became a bestseller in Armenia and was later translated into French.
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About the author
Born in 1959 in Gyumri, he is known for work across fiction, screenwriting, journalism, and essays. Sources about his career describe him as part of modern Armenian literary life, with studies in Armenian philology and later academic work focused on translation.
His first novel, Landslide (2000), was widely noted as a bestseller in Armenia and as one of the relatively few modern Armenian novels to be translated abroad. Other sources also describe him as a poet, translator, and scriptwriter, showing the range of his literary work.
Alongside his writing, he has been active in public and cultural life, and interviews and archive material about him suggest a strong interest in memory, language, and Armenian society. While some biographical details vary slightly across sources, the overall picture is of a versatile contemporary Armenian author whose work reaches beyond a single genre.