Anna Davtyan, Armenia

Anna Davtyan © Nazik Armenakyan

Anna Davtyan is a writer, translator, and photographer residing and working in Armenia. She is the author of a collection of poems, Book of Gratitude (2012). Her first novel, Khanna (2020), which received a fellowship grant from the Armenian Ministry of Education and Culture, is an offbeat detective story focusing on women’s issues in present–day Armenia. She has written numerous essays and short stories for the literary journal Inknagir, some of which have been translated into English. She is currently preparing a short story collection for publication, and working on a new book of poetry.

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Literature Express Europe. Re:Writing a Myth

In 2000 more than a hundred poets from 43 European countries spent six weeks travelling across the continent – a working trip and reading tour through the whole of Europe. After all the upheavals and turmoil and the conflicts of the Nineties, it was also a journey of new beginnings. Now, twenty years on, poets who took part in the project as well as a younger generation of writers have been invited to write an essayistic, poetic reworking of the myth of the “Rape of Europa”.

Ana Luísa Amaral • Juri Andruchowytsch • Anna Davtyan • Marija Dejanović • Tatiana Faia • László Garaczi • Anne Haverty • Felicitas Hoppe • Konstantina Korryvanti • Mariët Meester • Astra Papachristodoulou • Alberto Porlan Villaescusa • Tomasz Różycki • Aleš Šteger • Nenad Veličković • Christina Viragh

Anna Davtyan – Առաքանի

In 2000 more than a hundred poets from 43 European countries spent six weeks travelling across the continent – a working trip and reading tour through the whole of Europe. Now, twenty years on, thirteen of the poets who took part in the project have been invited to write an essayistic, poetic reworking of the myth of the “Rape of Europa”.

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Anna Davtyan