Hakob Karapents

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Native name Յակոբ Կարապենց Name Hakob Karapents Occupation author		Citizenship United States Nationality Iranian-Armenian Role Author

Born August 9, 1925 Tabriz, Iran Died 1994, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States Books Return & Tiger and Other Short Stories

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.

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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)

References

Hakob Karapents Wikipedia

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