VARUJAN VOSGANIAN

VARUJAN VOSGANIAN, poet and prose writer, was born in Craiova on July 25, 1958. He graduated from the Faculty of Commerce of the Academy of Economic Studies and the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Bucharest and has a PhD in economics. He had a long presence in the Romanian Parliament and was minister of economy and finance on several periods. He is president of the Union of Armenians in Romania and interim president of the Union of Writers in Romania.

Along with numerous theoretical works, especially with economic subjects, he published the volumes of poetry The Blue Shaman (1994), The Queen’s White Gaze (2001), Jesus with a Thousand Arms (2004), The Book of My Unwritten Poems (2015), They say my name is Varujan (2019) and Awkwardly Alive (2023); novels − The Book of Whispers (2009), Children of  War (2016), The Passions according to Gödel (2020), Double Self-Portrait (2024) as well as three volumes of short stories – The Statue of the Commander (1994; 2018), The Game of a Hundred Leaves and other stories (2013) and Tales about Ordinary People (2022). His novel, The Book of Whispers, was critically acclaimed and won him international recognition, as well as the Central European Angelus Literary Award. His books have been translated into over twenty languages.