Krikor Beledian

Armenian Diaspora Author

Krikor Beledian

Գրիգոր Պըլտեան

Born 1945

Lebanese-born French-Armenian poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, widely regarded as a leading contemporary Western Armenian writer.
Poetry Novels Literary criticism Western Armenian

About Krikor Beledian

Born in Beirut in 1945, Krikor Beledian studied at the Nshan Palandjian Armenian Lyceum before moving to Paris in 1967. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and later taught Armenian language and literature in France.

Beledian has published dozens of volumes of poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism, largely in Western Armenian. His formally demanding work explores language, exile, memory, and the afterlife of catastrophe, while his scholarship has shaped the study of modern Armenian literature.

Books by Krikor Beledian