Ana Arzoumanian

Ana Arzoumanian (born 21 April 1962) is an Argentine lawyer, writer, poet, and translator.

Biography Ana Arzoumanian was born in Buenos Aires in 1962, a descendant of Armenian immigrants and the granddaughter of survivors of the Armenian genocide. She currently resides in Buenos Aires.

Education Arzoumanian earned a law degree from the Universidad del Salvador's Faculty of Legal Sciences. She completed a postgraduate degree in psychoanalysis at the Lacanian Orientation School of Buenos Aires.

Academic career Arzoumanian was a professor of philosophy of law at the Universidad del Salvador's Faculty of Legal Sciences from 1998 to 2001. From 2015 to 2016 she worked as a professor in the International Postgraduate Course in Creative Writing of the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO) and as a visiting teacher to the Decolonia team of the Faculty of Law's social department at the University of Buenos Aires.

She has translated works by Bonaventure des Périers, Susan Gubar, and Levon Khechoyan into Spanish.

Awards and recognitions

2008: Yad Vashem International Scholarship for study of the Holocaust

Works

Books

(poetic version and prologue)

Anthologies Velarde (2011), Secretary of Culture of San Luis Potosí

Translations El alambre no se percibía entre la hierba. Relatos de la guerra de Karabagh (2015), Levón Khechoyan, Hovhannés Yeranyan, Hecho Atómico. . Co-produced with Alice Ter Ghevondian. Cymbalum Mundi. Bonaventure des Périers (2014), Alción. Im anune hima e (2013), Editorial Antares. . Translation of the poem Káukasos into Armenian by Alice Ter Ghevondian. Un idioma también es un incendio. 20 poetas de Armenia (2013), Alción-Activo Puente. . Co-produced with Alice Ter Ghevondian. Lo largo y lo corto del verso Holocausto (2007), Susan Gubar, Alción.