Literary encounter with Ana Arzoumanian

Literary encounter with Ana Arzoumanian (Argentina), moderated by Gérard Malkassian (lecturer at Inalco).

Ana Arzoumanian, born in Buenos Aires in 1962 to an Armenian family, is an Argentinian poet and essayist. She presents Georges Festa's translation into French of two of her works, 'Jeanne la Folle' and 'Vodka aux mûres', representative of the two main areas of inspiration and reflection in Ana Arzoumanian's writing: male domination, the conditions of access for female speech and thought to the public space on the one hand, and the traumas inherited from genocides and mass atrocities on the other, interrogated from her own experience as a descendant of survivors of the 1915 extermination.

The meeting will take the form of a discussion with the author on the works presented, with a reading of excerpts, then on the place of the Armenian community, its authors, writers and artists in Argentine cultural life and in their relationship to Armenianness, and finally on future prospects in a country in the throes of political, economic and social upheaval.