Tatev Chakhian

Tatev Chakhian (born 1992) is an Armenian poet, artist, editor and translator who lives in Poland.

Her debut collection of poetry, Dowód (nie)osobisty ((Non)-Identity Card) (2016), was nominated for the 2018 European Poet of Freedom award. She is an editor of the online poetry journal iranliter.com. Her artworks have been included in exhibitions in Brussels and Armenia.

Early life and education 
Born in Yerevan in 1992, Chakhian is a cultural anthropology graduate of Yerevan State University, whose academic interests include the semiotics of the city, “reading” the city as a text. Chakhian combines poetry with visual arts, such as paper collages she exhibited in Armenia and Brussels. 

She edits the internet magazine iranliter.com, focusing on translations of contemporary Iranian poetry.

Awards 
Her awards include the Dionizy Maliszewski Literary Competition (2014), Gazeta Obywatelska prize (2016), the First Lady of Armenia's literary award, and the Sahak Partev prize, a prize awarded by the Catholic Church in Armenia. Her first poetry collection was nominated for the 2018 European Poet of Freedom Award, an award dedicated to "honouring and promoting phenomena in poetry that deal with one of the most crucial subjects for contemporary readers – freedom – and, at the same time, are characterized by outstanding artistic values."

References

External links 
 
 Armenia, Villages on the Road (poem)

Category:1992 births
Category:21st-century Armenian poets
Category:21st-century Armenian artists
Category:Armenian women artists
Category:Armenian women poets
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century Armenian women writers