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About the Author

Serge Momjian was born in Beirut in 1946.When civil war broke out in the mid-seventies,he came to London,studied journalism,then attended a degree course in fiction writing.Since then he has worked as a feature writer,movie critic and book reviewer for various publications including Beirut's Daily Star,the Middle East's leading English-language newspaper,and London's Events news magazine.He is a graduate of the British Radio Television Film & Theatre Production Academy where he directed a number of programmes.Most of his articles about arts have been translated for the Armenian-language press.He is the author of Conflicting Motives(1994),and encouraged by the positive feedback he received from readers and his press colleagues,he gave up journalism to devote all his time to writing.He wrote The Invisible line(2000),The Singer of the Opera(2004),and Memories of the Past(2010),all four novels published in London.His latest historical novel,probably his greatest,has won critical acclaim.He is currently working on his fifth novel. Mr Momjian is one of the very few Lebanese authors of Armenian descent who writes in the English-language.During his long literary career he remained genuinely modest about his achievements.

NOTE:Summaries of the plots of his novels are available on request.

Sonia Basmajian Secretary on behalf of the author