Jesus' Cat - Shashikyan (Aka Grig), Grigor

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Résumé :
Jesus' Cat is the first book by this young prose writer. The stories involved in this collection reveal, on the one hand, a unique writing style, and on the other, an original perspective on the world and people. This combination allows characters to develop in Grig's creative space that helps readers discover another invisible side of life. This book was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia under the Armenian Literature in Translation Program Translated from the Armenian by Nazareth Seferian Proofread by Teresa Wigglesworth-Baker Publishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor

Biographie:
Grigor Shashikyan (aka Grig) was born in Yerevan in 1991. In 2015 he received his Master's Degree at the Faculty of Armenian Philology at Yerevan State University, where he wrote his thesis on world literature and theory of literature. Grig's first collection of short stories called Jesus' Cat was published in 2015. In 2016 Grig was awarded a special prize after Levon Ananyan under the Yerevan Bestseller project organized by the Armenpress news agency. In the same year he was awarded a youth prize by the President of the Republic of Armenia for his collection of short stories Jesus' Cat. Grig's stories have been published in various literary journals and anthologies, both in print and digitally. Now he is doing a PhD at Yerevan State University.