Gohar Markosjan-Käsper

Who is Gohar Markosjan-Käsper?

Gohar Markosjan-Käsper is an Armenian writer, currently residing in Tallinn, Estonia.

Her father was an opera singer and mother a ballet-dancer. She graduated the university as a Russian philologist. Since 1990, she has been married to Kalle Käsper, an Estonian writer and translator, since 1990. Markosjan-Käsper's best-known work is probably the novel Penelope her novels Helena and The Caryatides have also been successful in Russia and the Western Europe. Her works have been characterized as magical realist. She writes in Russian; she is also member of the Estonian Union of Writers. Before moving to Estonia, Gohar Markosjan used to work as a doctor in Yerevan.