Zareh Vorpuni

Zareh Vorpouni (Armenian: Զարեհ Որբունի; May 24, 1902 in Ordu, Ottoman Empire - December 1, 1980 in Paris, France) was an Armenian novelist, editor, and writer.[1][2]

Translation

Zareh Vorpouni's first work to appear in English translation is The Candidate: A Novel, translated by Jennifer Manoukian and Ishkhan Jinbashian (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016). In the translator's introduction, Manoukian writes, "From this footnote has emerged a translation that resists, much like in the spirit of the original. It resists the isolation and insularity of literature written in a minority language; it resists the idea that culture in diaspora is fossilized, stagnant, or in decline; and it resists the notion that Armenians have only their century-old plight to offer the world outside their national cocoon."[3] Vorpouni was also featured in the April 2020 issue of Asymptote in which Manoukian explores his use of the "new novel."[4]

References
  1. J. Hacikyan, Agop (2005). The Heritage of Armenian Literature From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times. Detroit: Wayne State Univ Pr. pp. 1007–1008. ISBN 9780814332214. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  2. B. Bardakjian, Kevork (2000). A reference guide to modern Armenian literature, 1500-1920: with an introductory history. Introduction by Kevork B. Bardakjian. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press. p. 444. ISBN 9780814327470. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  3. Vorpouni, Zareh (2016). The Candidate. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. pp. xii–xiii. ISBN 978-0815634683.
  4. Manoukian, Jennifer. "Survivor Testimony as Art: Zareh Vorpouni and the New Novel". Asymptote. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
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