Name Gohar Markosjan-Kasper | Role Writer | |
Gohar Markosjan-Käsper (Armenian: Գոհար Մարկոսյան-Կասպեր; 14 July 1949 – 15 September 2015) was an Armenian writer who lived in Tallinn, Estonia.
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Life
Her father was an opera singer and mother a ballet-dancer. She graduated the Yerevan State Medical school as a doctor. Since 1990, she has been married to Kalle Käsper, an Estonian writer and translator. Before moving to Estonia, Gohar Markosjan used to work as a doctor in Yerevan.
Work as a writer
Markosjan-Käsper's best-known work is probably the novel Penelope (translated into French, German - as Penelope, die Listenreiche, Dutch and Spanish) . Her novels Helena and The Caryatides have also been successful in Russia and Western Europe. Her works have been characterized as magical realist.
She wrote in Russian. Markosjan-Käsper was also a member of the Estonian Writers' Union.