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Karen Karslyan
poet and novelist

Announced
"The Scandalous Writer 2003" by Armenian Public TV for his first book
X Frames/Sec
published in May 2003

Winner of Young Artists Award 2004 for
Password, KK's second
novel soon coming up
in hard copies

 
   


 

e v e n t s
/most recent events appear first/

> Reading a fragment from Password, a novel in progress, I Love You According to Google and The Universe for Smell Last Sunday of the Month Reading Series on the penultimate Sunday of November Featuring: Franklin Bruno, Maggie Nelson, Amy Gerstler, Karen Karslyan at "The Smell" in Downtown Los Angeles, CA [November 19, 2006] [November 19, 2006]

> Reading I Love You According To Google and Love At Every Sight in an open-air poetry reading event at the Pasadena City College [November 17, 2006]

> Avis de recherche: Une anthologie de la poésie arménienne contemporaine (A Search Guide: An Anthology of Contemporary Armenian Poetry), a French/Armenian bilingual book published with the initiative of the centre international de poésie Marseille (cipM) and launched October 5, 2006, in Marseille . The anthology includes The Poet's Cardiogram. Click here to get complete info on the book or read the foreword (in French).
I had to decline the invitation to the event in Marseille due to unfavorable time frame. [October 5, 2006, 19:00]

> Reading The Universe in an open-air poetry reading event at the Pasadena City College [June 2, 2006]

> The World Stage featuring me et al at the Anansi Writers Workshop. I read The Universe [April 5, 2006]

> Reading The Poem You Are Looking For and March (in Armenian) at popular request in a monthly poetry reading event at Urartu Cafe in Glendale, CA [March 26, 2006]

> Reading Love at Every Sight (in English) in a monthly poetry reading event at Urartu Cafe in Glendale, CA [February 26, 2006]

> KK lecturing on the developments in post-Soviet Armenian literature in an Armenian literature class at UCLA. Reading an excerpt from Password and the poem Sh [November 15, 2005]

> Reading Love at Every Sight during the launch of Emily Artinian's From Ararat to Angeltown in New York, NY [October 5, 2005]

> Love at Every Sight published in Emily Artinian's From Ararat to Angeltown, an anthology of contemporary Armenian literature, London, UK [September, 2005]

> Reading The Poet's Cardiogram at the Cafe-Club Fais-Do-Do in Los Angeles, CA [July 25, 2005]

> Presenting a scholarly paper "Black Humour Targeting Armenian Genocide" (Kurt Vonnegut's Bluebeard, Saroyan's writings and the Armenian mentality) at the third annual international Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies, Royce Hall 314, UCLA [February 25, 2005]

> Earned MA in English literature for the dissertation "Comparative Poetics of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: Intertextual study," in Yerevan, Armenia. Defended at Armenia's National Academy of Sciences [September 17, 2004]

> Won the first prize in the field of literature for my latest novel Password at the Young Artists Award 2004.
/The contest in arts (literature, painting, music and video art) was organized by NPAK (
Armenian Center for Contemporary and Experimental Art)/
[May 7, 2004]

> Presenting a scholarly paper "One Sailed Over Mount Ararat" (the Armenian in Joyce's Finnegans Wake) at the second annual international Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies, Kerckhoff Hall 316, UCLA [February 20, 2004]

 

 

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