SHUSHAN AVAGYAN


Shushan Avagyan is the translator of Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot, Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar, A Hunt for Optimism, The Hamburg Score, and On the Theory of Prose by Viktor Shklovsky (Dalkey Archive), Art and Production by Boris Arvatov (Pluto), and I Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik Kurghinian (AIWA). Her articles and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Review of Contemporary Fiction, CONTEXT, Asymptote, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Music & Literature, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches at the American University of Armenia and is a contributor to Tilted Axis Press’s anthology Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (edited by Kavita Bhanot & Jeremy Tiang).

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