Vartan Matiossian
Vartan Matiossian is a diasporan Armenian historian, translator and editor. He is currently director of the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church and book review editor for Armenian Review.Biography
Matiossian was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on March 6, 1964. He moved to Buenos Aires in 1973. In 1991 he graduated from the School of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. From 1992 to 2000, he was associate professor of Armenian History and Religion at the School of Eastern Studies, Universidad del Salvador. He has lived in New Jersey, USA since 2000. In 2006 he earned his Ph.D. in history from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. He was director of the Armenian National Education Committee from 2010-2019. His fields of interest cover Armenian history and literature, both ancient and modern. Besides his scholarly work, he is an active contributor to the periodical press in Armenian, English, and Spanish.Selected bibliography
Written
- Կոստան Զարեանի շուրջ, Antelias : Kevork Melidinetzi Literary Prize, 1998
- Անվերջ վերադարձ. Հայաստանի ճանապարհները , Yerevan: Zangak-97, 2005
- Հարաւային կողմն աշխարհի. հայերը Լատին Ամերիկայի մէջ սկիզբէն մինչեւ 1950, Antelias : Richard and Tina Carolan Literary Fund, 2005
- Շամախեցի պարուհին. Արմէն Օհանեանի կեանքն ու գործը, Yerevan: Press of the Museum of Literature and Art, 2007
- Գրական-բանասիրական ուսումնասիրութիւններ, Antelias : Kevork Melidinetzi Literary Prize, 2009
- Pasado sin retorno, futuro que espera: los armenios en la Argentina, ayer y hoy, Montevideo: Asociación Cultural Uruguay-Armenia, 2011
- Armenian Language Matters, New York: Armenian National Education Committee, 2019
Edited
- Los armenios en América del Sur: Primeras Jornadas de Estudio, Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigación Armenológica, 1992
- Bedrós Hadjian, El cinturón, translated by Berg Agemian, Buenos Aires: Akian, 2004
- Bedros Hadjian, Հարաւը Սփիւռքի մէջ, Aleppo: Cilicia Press, 2008
- Gurgen Mahari, Չարենց-նամէ , compiled by Grigor Achemyan, Yerevan: Bookinist, 2012
- Հայաստանի պատմական ատլաս / Atlas of Historical Armenia, New York: Armenian National Education Committee, 2012
- Կոմիտաս-150 / Gomidas-150, New York: Sis Publications, 2019
Co-edited
- Charents: Poet of the Revolution, Costa Mesa : Mazda Press, 2003
- Gurgen Mahari, Երկերի լիակատար ժողովածու, vol. I-XIII, compiled by Grigor Achemyan, Yerevan: Antares, 2014-2018
Translated
- Sarkís Gulludjian, El arte de vivir, Buenos Aires: n.p., 1985
- Sarkís Gulludjian, La fuente de la luz, Buenos Aires: Shoghag, 1986
- Eghishé Charénts, Libro del camino, Buenos Aires: Avant, 1987
- Bedrós Hadjian, Grandes figuras de la cultura armenia , Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 1987
- Sarkís Gulludjian, Dos conferencias esclarecedoras, Buenos Aires: Asociación Cultural Armenia Hamazkaín, 1988, 108 pages
- Bedrós Hadjian, Grandes figuras de la cultura armenia , Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 1990
- Iervant Odian, El camarada Panchuní, Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 1992
- Paruyr Sevak, El árbol solitario, Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 1995
- Bedrós Hadjian, La palabra silenciada: las pérdidas intelectuales del Genocidio Armenio, Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 2001
- Martirós de Yerzinka, Hovhannes Aprakunetzi, Sarguis el Monje, Itinerarios, Yerevan: Academia Linguistica Internacional, 2001, 50 pages
- Otros tiempos: poesía contemporánea de Armenia, Yerevan: Unión de Escritores de Armenia, 2006
- Bedrós Hadjian, Cien años, cien historias: Armenia y los armenios en el siglo XX, Buenos Aires: Editum, 2007
- George Apelian, No vendas a mi hermanita, mamá, Buenos Aires: n.p., 2009
- Artak Movsisian, La meseta sagrada: Armenia en la geografía espiritual del antiguo Medio Oriente, Yerevan: Universidad de Erevan, 2010
- Artsvi Bakhchinyan, Armenian Cinema-100: The Early History of Armenian Cinema , Yerevan: Academy of Cinema of Armenia and Union of Armenian Cinematographers, 2012
- Narrativa armenia contemporánea, Yerevan: Edit Print, 2014, 151 pages
- Հնգամեայ ծրագիր. Հայկական Համայնքներու բաժանմունք 2014-2018, Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2014, pp. 33-67
- Haiganoush Satchian-Grkacharian, Hadjin, If We Forget You..., Glendale: Ars Publishing, 2017, 296 pages
- Hamasdegh, House of Prayer, New York: SIS Publications, 2018, 52 pages
