Agapi Mkrtchian

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Agapi Mkrtchian at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2019

Agapi Mkrtchian (* 1956 in Armenia ) is a translator .

Live and act

Agapi Mkrtchian (now 1956 in the village of Hrazdan Gegaschen ) in the province of Kotayk of the Republic of Armenia was born. She studied "German as a Foreign Language" in Yerevan and then German studies in Jena . First she worked as a lecturer for “German as a Foreign Language” in Yerevan, later as a department head in a children's museum.

In 1986 she was able to enter the Federal Republic of Germany with her German husband, whom she married in 1985 . She completed a postgraduate course at the JW von Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She has lived in Wiesbaden in Wiesbaden since 1986, where she has been working as a teacher at a school since 1993.

Works (selection)

  • “My other half”, fairy tales and poetry from Armenia, Frankfurt, 2006.
  • “On that white evening”, poetry and prose, Frankfurt, 2011.
  • Armenia's heart. Großerwahn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, March 2017, first edition.
  • T̕owmanyan, Hovhannes - Stolzalpe: Armenian fairy tales. Wolfgang Hager Verlag, 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessischer Literaturrat: Mkrtchian, Agapi - A lance for literature.
  2. ↑ Portraits of the authors: Agapi Mkrtchian.

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personal data
SURNAME Mkrtchian, Agapi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hrazdan (now Gegaschen ), province of Kotayk , Armenia