The Flying African

by Areg Azatyan, Nazareth Seferian

Overview

Follows the journey of a young Armenian writer who spends fifty-four adventurous days in Africa, one in each of the continent's countries. Both traveler and reader take a complex journey, encountering what is both familiar and foreign.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642510522
Publisher:	Frayed Edge Press
Publication date:	01/30/2024
Edition description:	First English Language ed.
Pages:	468
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Areg Azatyan is an Armenian writer and filmmaker based in the USA. He is the author of six fiction books published by leading publishing houses in Armenia: Life Beyond the Sun, The Trial of the Human, Grasping at the Ladybug's Leg, The Flying African, The Romanticists, and During the Lull. He has also published short fiction in Armenian and international magazines and newspapers. He was the recipient of one of the highest governmental literary awards in Armenia, the Presidential Youth Prize for Literature (2004), as well as Best Writer of the Year (2010) Mesrop Mashtots trophy, and several other international and national literary awards. As a filmmaker, his work has been recognized with several awards and prizes, and he has participated in more than forty international film festivals, including Berlinale, Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, and Gothenburg.

Nazareth Seferian was born in Canada, grew up in India and moved to his homeland ofArmenia in 1998, where he has been living ever since. His university education was notspecific to translation studies, but his love for languages led him to this work in 2001. Hebegan literary translations in 2011 and his published works include the English versionof Yenok's Eye by Gurgen Khanjyan, The Clouds of Mount Maruta by Mushegh Galshoyan, Ravens Before Noah by Susanna Harutyunyan, Jesus' Cat by Grig, The Door Was Open byKarine Khodikyan, and Robinson by Aram Pachyan. He has also translated several shortstories by other Armenian authors including Artavazd Yeghiazaryan, Levon Shahnur, Armen of Armenia (Ohanyan), Areg Azatyan, Avetik Mejlumyan, and Anna Davtyan.Nazareth produces several pages of translation each day, driven by his desire to promotegreater availability and recognition of Armenian culture for English speakers worldwide.