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Mariam Petrosyan

マリーム・ペトロシアン

Mariam Petrosyan

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1969-08-10 (Yerevan)
Nationality
Armenian
Languages
Russian, Armenian
Residence History
Yerevan → Moscow → Yerevan

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Cartoonist, Painter
Active Years
1990-2024
Affiliations
Armenfilm, Soyuzmultfilm
Nominations
Russian Booker Prize 2010, Read Russia Prize 2018 Shortlist

Awards

Big Book
2009
Work: The Gray House
Category: 読者同情賞
Result: 第3位
Russian Prize
2009
Work: The Gray House
Category: 国外在住作家による最優秀ロシア語書籍
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Gray House

2009 Magic Realism

A story about a boarding school for disabled children.

DisabilityIsolationReality and Fantasy
Translations
  • Italian (La casa del tempo sospeso, 2011)
  • Hungarian (Abban a házban, 2012)
  • Polish (Dom, w którym..., 2013)
  • Spanish (La casa de los otros, 2015)
  • French (La Maison dans laquelle, 2016)
  • Czech (Dům, ve kterém, 2016)
  • Macedonian (Домот во кој..., 2016)
  • English (The Gray House, 2017)

Bibliography

  • The Gray House (Дом, в котором..., 2009)
  • The Dog Who Could Fly (Сказка про собаку, которая умела летать, 2014)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
ModernismPostmodernism

Legacy

Best known for her award-winning novel The Gray House, translated into multiple languages.

Trivia

  • Great-granddaughter of the painter Martiros Saryan.
  • Married to Armenian graphic artist Artashes Stamboltsyan. They have two children.