Aram Pachyan (Armenia)

Born in 1983, is an acclaimed prize-winning fiction writer of the independent generation. His first book, a collection of short stories titled Robinson, was published in 2011 and earned him the Presidential Prize for Literature. His novel Goodbye, Bird became a national bestseller in 2012. His novel P/F (2020) received the European Prize for Literature in 2021. Pachyan has also published a short story collection called Ocean (2014) and a collection of speeches, articles, essays, and short stories titled If It Is A Writer (2023).
He has been a radio host at radio with the program At the Library with Aram Pachyan, a columnist and journalist at Hraparak newspaper where he had his column Our City and was writing essays and texts about the history, memory and current state of the capital.

The play I am a vegetarian as staged in 2017 based on his novel Goodbye, Bird and a musical piece Pachyan Fragments by composer Aram Hovhannisyan, based on Pachyan’s P/F novel, was performed in the US in 2015. Goodbye, Bird opera was staged in Munich, Germany by Art Concept International Association. The recent theater project based on texts by Pachyan is the play MENologue at the Mher Mkrtchyan Artistic Theater.