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Hakob Karapents
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Intro | Armenian writer |
Was | Writer Prosaist |
From | Iran |
Field | Literature |
Gender | male |
Birth | 9 August 1925, Tabriz |
Death | 20 October 1994, Boston (aged 69 years) |
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
Hakob Karapents (Armenian: Յակոբ Կարապենց), also known as Jack Karapetian, was a prolific Iranian-Armenian author born in 1925 in Tabriz, Iran. He settled in the United States in 1947. He wrote numerous novels and short stories during his life span in both Armenian and English. He died in 1994 in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Selected Writings
Novels
- Կարթագենի դուստրը (The Daughter of Carthago, Beirut, 1972)
- Ադամի գիրքը (The Book of Adam, New York, 1983)
Short Story Collections
- Անծանօթ հոգիներ (Unknown Souls, Beirut, 1970)
- Նոր աշխարհի հին սերմնացանները (The Old Sowers of the New World, Beirut, 1975)
- Միջնարար (Intermezzo, New York, 1981)
- Ամերիկեան շուրջպար (American Circle Dance, New York, 1986)
- Անկատար (Imperfect, New York, 1987)
- Մի մարդ ու մի երկիր եւ այլ պատմուածքներ (A Man and A Country and Other Stories, Watertown, Ma., 1994)
- Return and Tiger and Other Short Stories, Tatul Sonentz-Papazian, tr. (Watertown, Ma., 1995)
Essays
- Երկու աշխարհ (Watertown, Ma., 1992)
- Մտորումներ (Arlington, Ma., 2009)

Karapents' gravestone at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown, MA
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