Marine Petrossian

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Marine Petrossian (also written Mariné Petrossian; Armenian: Մարինե Պետրոսյան) was born on 16 August 1960 in Yerevan, Armenia. She is an Armenian poet, essayist and columnist who writes in Armenian. Her literary career began around the end of the Soviet Union. Her first book appeared in Yerevan in 1993, two years after Armenia became independent. The book was translated into French, and in 1995 Editions Comp’Act published J’apporterai des pierres. Her second book, Erevan, appeared in 2003, and she has published four more poetry books in Armenia since then. In 2015 Audisea published Disparó el arma, a Spanish translation of her poems; the launch took place at the National Library of Argentina, and the newspaper Página/12 invited her to be interviewed. She has been writer-in-residence at Djerassi (2005), at Q21 in Vienna (2013), and at Omi International Arts Center in New York (2015). Petrossian also translates her poetry into English, with some translations appearing in Transcript, Europe’s online review of international writing, and in Deviation, an anthology of contemporary Armenian literature. Her essay "Antipoetry, or When the Poet Does Not Seek an Alibi" sparked discussion in Armenian literary circles, arguing that antipoetry is a leading trend in modern Armenian poetry. In Armenia she is well known as a columnist; from 2007 to 2009 she wrote a weekly column for Haikakan jamanak, the main opposition newspaper, attracting a large readership. The essays were collected in Red Poster (2011). In 2007 she received the Tigran Hayrapetian award for her essay "Why the War does not Come to an End."