Anush Aslibekyan
Anush** Aslibekyan** is an Armenian writer, theater critic, playwright, PhD in arts. She is an author of four books of fiction. Her plays have been staged in Armenia and elsewhere; samples of her fiction works have been translated into German, Greek, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian, Polish. In November, 2022, actress Nora Armani (who is the co-translator of current poem) presented her English translation of Aslibekyan’s play, MERCEDES AND ZARUHI, at the United Solo Theatre Festival at Theatre Row in New York.

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My Homeland My One and Only

Translated from Armenian by Artsvi** Bakhchinyan** andNora Armani Today, I long to enjoy my furtive old age, as I securely wrap myself in a shawl, sipping my tea, oblivious to the news, indifferent to currency inflations and the declining price of oil. Today, I wish to cede to an impulse; an urge to live passively. Today, I hope to lose my glasses, and with them my sight and my mind, in the throes of this blinding pain...

March 24, 2024 · Anush Aslibekyan