User:Angelina 2010/Mark Aren

Born: May 2, 1955

(age: 67)

Place of birth: Yerevan,

Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR

Citizenship: Armenia

Education: Yerevan Computer Research and

Development Institute and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Occupation: Fiction writer

Mark Aren or Karen Margaryan (born: May 2, 1955 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR) is a modern Armenian fiction writer based in Moscow, Russia.

Biography
Karen Margaryan was born on May 2, 1955. An economist by training, he holds degrees from Yerevan State Polytechnic Institute (1976) and Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany, 1990). In 2006, Karen Margaryangraduated also from Moscow State University of Management.

Since 2003, he has been working at the Moscow-based Global Economy Institute where he currently officiates as a director.

Since 2006, Karen Margaryan has been a professor at the Moscow Finance and Law University. He is a member of the board of directors at IDBank.

From 2012 until 2013, Karen Margaryan was a programs manager at the open joint-stock company Ruanet .

During his studies at the Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute, Margaryan developed a totally new memory control paradigm for the supercomputer EC-1045, an invention to which Americans gave an evaluation topping the IBM original.

He started writing in 2000 ։

"Literature has different genres ... romanticism, idealism, classicism, realism ... I have invented my own genre, i.e. - adventurism, as none of the above matched my taste."

Education
He completed his studies at the Yerevan Computer Machine and Development Institute by defending a graduation thesis. Later he majored in Anti-Crisis Management at the Karshluhe Institute of Technology (Germany).

Literary Works
Mark Aren's first novel, Requiem for Juda, was published in Russian in 2006.

Anatolian Story: Where Wild Roses Bloom
Anatolian Story: Where Wild Roses Bloom is the second novel which was published in Armenian and Russian in 2008. It is now a bestseller in most Yerevan bookstores. The novel depicts the emotional torments of a radical anti-Armenian Turk who, at an elderly age, discovered all of a sudden that his parents were Armenians.

Based on the motives of the novel, Hrach Keshishyan, a contemporary Armenian film director and producer, produced the TV series The Anatolian Story.

The Christmas Angel
The Christmas Angel is a novella which was published in Armenian in 2019. On the Christmas Day, angels descend from Heaven to work miracles on Earth by making dreams come true. But they to help only those who they could see. An angel lends a helping hand to Christine, and they fall in love. But that brings him face to face with a dilemma: whether to leave his love and return to Heaven or to remain on Earth, thereby accepting the destiny of mortals .. The plot of the novella served as a basis for the New Year comedy My Friend Is An Angel (Russian: Мой парень — ангел; Moscow, 2019, producer: Vera Storzheva).

Vil-Evrar
Vil Evrar was published in 2018. The Armenian edition was translated by Hovhannes Avagyan. The book unfolds unknown chapters from the life of Komitas, the founder of contemporary Armenian music, depicting certain episodes of his lifetime as a period covered with a thick fog. Komitas, who relocated to France after the Armenian Genocide, resided in a psychiatric clinic known as Viv-Evrar. Then, he was taken to another similar institution, Vil-Zhuiff, where he stayed until his final days. There is abounding information about Vil-Zhuiff where the great composer was visited by friends and loved ones. No records are available about Viv-Evrar.

The novel has two main characters: a young doctor, Isabelle, and her boss, Professor Dupont, an elderly man who was the hospital's chief doctor and director. Upon starting the novel, the author had a mind to guide himself by the rules underlying similar plots. He cultivated the image of a fictional hero, a chess-player identifying himself as Chhpilmacher, who became the composer's roommate. Komitas who had survived the Genocide, found himself confined in the same hospital ward with an ethnic Jew who was destined to face the Holocaust not in the too distant future. The author sought to tie the two nations' fates, citing the Armenian Genocide as a precedent that led the Nazi German rulers to perpetrate the Holocaust of Jews. He bases his position on the theory that if not the Ottoman-era atrocities committed against the Armenians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Jews would not have been exiled into extermination camps in the World War II period.

The Quartet
The novel features four main character: Khachatur, Tigran and Artem, young men from Yerevan joined by a companion from Moscow, Andrey. They join the humanitarian efforts towards eliminating the aftermaths of the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, and later fight for the liberation of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), embarking on a campaign against criminal gangs in a relatively peaceful period ... Their life was full of ordeals and experiences, but nothing could split the quartet. The plot of novel served as a basis for the TV series Rendezvous Site.



Literature

 * Requiem for Huda, 2006
 * Anatolian Story: Where Wild Roses Bloomm, Yerevan, 2008 (7th edition, 2019)
 * Vil-Evrar, Yerevan, 2018 (Translation from Russian by Hovhannes Avagyan)
 * The Quartert: Novella, Yerevan, 2019 (Translation from Russian by Hovhannes Avagyan)
 * Telportation (Телепортация), «ЛюМо» publishing house, 2020
 * The Christmas Angel, Yerevan, 2019 (Translation from Russian by Hovhannes Avagyan) ։