Christopher Atamian

Christopher Atamian is a noted translator, writer, and producer/director living in New York City. He produced the OBIE Award-winning play “Trouble in Paradise” in 2006 and was included as an invited artist to the 2009 Venice Biennale for his video “Desire”. His short films and videos have screened throughout the world and he publishes regularly in leading publications such as The Huffington Post and The New York Times. He has written one novel, “Speaking French,” and translated six books from French and Western Armenian into English, including Nigoghos Sarafian’s “The Bois de Vincennes.” Christopher has worked in senior-level positions for leading media companies including ABC, Ogilvy Interactive and JP Morgan’s marketing division. He is an alumnus of Harvard University, Columbia Business School and USC Film School and a former Fulbright, Bronfman and Gulbenkian Scholar. Chris can be reached at catamian@gmail.com

Articles

Review of Agop J. Hacikyan's "The Lamppost Diary"

Best known for his precious anthology of modern Armenian literature and for his first well-received novel “A Summer Wihtout Dawn”, Agop Hacikyan has just published a touching if uneven novel titled The Lamppost Diary. Set in Istanbul during and immediately following World War II, the story recounts the life of young Thomas, a perpetually randy Bolsahai who spends much of his time dreaming, courting and winning over a beautiful young Russian girl by the name of Anya....

Chris Bohjalian's The Sandcastle Girls

Reviewed by Christopher Atamian Chris Bohjalian’s The Sandcastle Girls follows in a long and seemingly unending line of novels that purport to tell the story of the Armenian Genocide using some type of fictional background as a framing mechanism. All too often - and this book is no exception - the stories are thinly-veiled excuses for once again retelling the story of 1915, where Armenians are hapless victims and Turks evil murderers....