Portrait of Diana Der-Hovanessian

Diana Der-Hovanessian

Diana Der-Hovanessian (1934–2018) was a poet, a translator of Armenian poetry, and for many years a contributing editor of AGNI. She authored over twenty-three books of poetry and translation, was twice a Fulbright Professor, and received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the PEN/Columbia Translation Center, the Armenian Writers Union, and the Paterson Poetry Center. Her poems appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, AGNI, The Partisan Review, The Nation, and elsewhere.

Der-Hovanessian’s collection Selected Poems was reviewed in AGNI 44 by Ellen Davis.

AGNI has published the following work:

It’s Hard to Be the Child

Improving the Golden Rule

From a Letter I Did Not Receive

Finding Words

Goddess of Hunting

In a Landscape Without Humans

AGNI has published the following translations:

Dialogue Before Death (1983)

Poetry by Nina Berberova Translated from the Russian by Marsbed Hablanian and Diana Der-Hovanessian

If I Don’t Love You

Poetry by Sylva Gaboudikian Translated from the Armenian by Diana Der-Hovanessian

Come Back Safely

Poetry by Sylva Gaboudikian Translated from the Armenian by Diana Der-Hovanessian
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