Movses Bchakjian

Movses Bchakjian

Movses Bchakjian was born in Aleppo in 1940. From 1976 on he lived in Paris. In 1990, his novel, “The sparrows will not be frightened by the scarecrows,” was awarded the Haigashen Ouzounian Literary Award of the Tekeyian Cultural Association. In 1981, his short story, “The unforeseeable,” was acknowledged as the best prose article of the year in “Pakin” Literary Magazine of Hamazkayin. In 2009 by decree of the RA President, M. Bchakjian was awarded the Movses Khorenatsi medal, and in 2010 the medal of the Armenian Writers’ Union for his literary practice. Movses Bchakjian has published the following volumes: “The impossible possible” (1973,) “Hello, Armenia” (1975,) “Before and after the cherry season” (1983,) “Up on the rooftop where laundry is hung” (1987,) “The sparrows will not be frightened by the scarecrows” (1990,) “The stranger with bright eyes” (1993,) “Incomplete decoding” (1997,) “Up to the last of the suns” (poems, 2001,) “Window looking at the world” (2002,) “The passing and the timelessness” (2005,) “Before the curtain closes,” and “Drinking the city” (2009.)