Arevik Ashkharoyan

Arevik Ashkharoyan

Arevik Ashkharoyan, Literary Agent, Founder of ARI Literary and Talent Agency and ARI Literature Foundation.

After having worked for 10 years in the corporate world she decided to pursue a career inspired by her love of reading. She started the 1st Armenian Literary Agency with a partner in 2010, and helped establish the Armenian Literature Foundation in 2014. This quickly inspired her to start thinking about her own agency and the decision was made to launch the ARI Literary and Talent Agency in 2016 and a non-profit initiative ARI Literature Foundation.

An Agent of Undiscovered Literature

An Agent of Undiscovered Literature

While contemporary Armenian writers are searching for a new language of expression, Arevik Ashkharoyan, a literary agent, has taken on the task of bringing their voices to a global audience. In this first essay for EVN Report, Ashkharoyan writes about the challenges of representing a book that many believe is about the army but in fact is a metaphor for a repressed society.