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Jennifer Manoukian
Jennifer Manoukian
The Blind Girl: Village Memories
This is a translation of a short story by Zabel Yessayan, which was originally published in the first issue of Archag Tchobanian’s journal Dzaghig in 1895.
continue reading »Ode to the Night, Zabel Yessayan’s First Published Work
Translated by Jennifer Manoukian This poem, written at the age of seventeen, is Zabel Yessayan’s first published work. It appeared in the first volume of Arshag Chobanian’s literary journal Dzaghig (Constantinople) in 1895. Come, oh [...]
continue reading »Zabel Yessayan’s The Red Windmill
A poem in prose by Zabel Yessayan (Hovhannessian), originally published in Anahid in 1898. Translated by Jennifer Manoukian. Gloomy premonitions dazed me with their somber dance and my soul, suspended in morbid inspiration, was thrust [...]
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