Gohar Markosjan-Käsper
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Gohar Markosjan-Käsper ({{langx|hy|Գոհար Մարկոսյան-Կասպեր}}; 14 July 1949, Yerevan – 15 September 2015, Barcelona) was an Armenian writer who lived in Tallinn, Estonia.{{cite web |title=Gohar Marcossian |publisher=Bibliomonde.net |url=http://www.bibliomonde.net/pages/fiche-auteur.php3?id_auteur=2065 |accessdate=2010-01-24 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |title=Penelope, die Listenreiche |work=Büchermarkt |publisher=Deutschlandfunk/Dradio.de |date=2010-01-20 |url=http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/buechermarkt/165476/ |accessdate=2010-01-24}}{{cite news |title=ELU ÜHES PÄEVAS: Gohar Markosjan-Käsper |language=Estonian |work=Eesti Ekspress |publisher=Ekspress.ee |url=http://www.ekspress.ee/viewdoc/C8F1B66C2D6F2D10C225701300316B0C |first=Birgit |last=Püve |date=2005-06-02 |accessdate=2010-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000502/http://www.ekspress.ee/viewdoc/C8F1B66C2D6F2D10C225701300316B0C |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |title=Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер |work=Postimees |publisher=rus.postimees.ee |date=2006-08-03 |url=http://rus.postimees.ee/030806/glavnaja/kultura/3198.php |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717134633/http://rus.postimees.ee/030806/glavnaja/kultura/3198.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-17 |author=Игорь Котюх |accessdate=2010-01-24}}
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,[http://www.egotrip.de/bucher/03/0310_penelope.html Gohar Morkosjan-Kasper: "Penelope, die Listenreiche". Eine literarische Verneigung vor Joyce und Homer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630211439/http://www.egotrip.de/bucher/03/0310_penelope.html |date=2007-06-30}} {{in lang|de}} Dutch and Spanish) . Her novels Helena and The Caryatides{{cite web |author=Я.Йняршпйн, Р.Рхунмнбю |url=http://magazines.russ.ru/zvezda/2003/8/goar-pr.html |title=Text in Russian |publisher=magazines.russ.ru |date=August 2003 |accessdate=2010-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706202237/http://magazines.russ.ru/zvezda/2003/8/goar-pr.html |archive-date=2017-07-06 |url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ekl.ee/liikmed.html |title=Eesti Kirjanike Liit |publisher=ekl.ee |accessdate=2010-01-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301100926/http://www.ekl.ee/liikmed.html |archivedate=2010-03-01}}
Bibliography
- Penelope (1998)
- Helena (2000)
- The Caryatides (2003)
- Penelope Starts the Journey (2007)
- Mycenae, Rich in Gold (2009)
- Memento mori (2012)
References and notes
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External links
- http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/buechermarkt/165476/ {{in lang|de}}
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000502/http://www.ekspress.ee/viewdoc/C8F1B66C2D6F2D10C225701300316B0C {{in lang|et}}
- [https://archive.today/20120717134633/http://rus.postimees.ee/030806/glavnaja/kultura/3198.php Игорь Котюх Прозрачные слова Гоар Маркосян-Кяспер. Postimees] {{in lang|ru}}
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180329214316/http://markosjan-kasper.com/ {{in lang|ru}}
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