Armenian poet, translator, essay writer. Graduated from the Vanadzor branch of the National Polytechnic University of Armenia and Moscow Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (1999, 2005).
Gevorg Gilants’s poems are published in various literary magazines and papers: “Garun” (Arm.), “Artasahmanyan grakanutyun” (Arm.), “Nairi”(Arm.), “Druzhba narodov”(Rus.), “Sibirskie ogni” (Rus.), “Sovremennaya poeziya” (Rus.), “Yeniseyski literator”(Rus.),”Shpatie culture” (Romania),
Newspapers - “Literaturnaya gazeta” (Rus.), “ Grakan tert “ (Arm.). His poems are also published in online editions (45parallel.net; citybooks.eu).
Gilants has been a participant of numerous international poetry festivals and events, includ- ing “Voloshinsky Sentyabr”, “Literaterra”, “Grakan Tapan”.
Poets works are translated into Russian, English, Dutch, Romanian languages.
He is an author of three books of poetry: “Unfading Pocketbook” (WUA Publishing, Yerevan, 2003); “Fly You, My Beast” (Obyedennnaya Kniga Publishers, Moscow, 2006); “ARS - meta” (Antares Publishing House, Yerevan 2014).
In my young, crazy days,
I dreamed to fly across the sky
I dreamed to embrace the sun
Even if to be burnt by it.
Now even the shade
of my arm Covers a globe and a moon. And in my flight I suddenly wished
To think about return;
landing beak.
I know the price of my flight is to be burnt The safe return is a wishing dream,
Mine is to embrace the breast of the sun The return is impossible
and it becomes a daydream.
I wish to embrace my fiery dream With an old former passion.
And I pray not to hesitate
on my half way So go on rushing across the sky.
Translated by Suren Sargsyan