Hakob Karapents ( hy, Յակոբ Կարապենց), also known as Jack Karapetian, was a prolific

Iranian-Armenian Iranian-Armenians ( hy, իրանահայեր ''iranahayer''), also known as Persian-Armenians ( hy, պարսկահայեր ''parskahayer''), are Iranians of Armenian ethnicity who may speak Armenian as their first language. Estimates of th ...

author born in 1925 in

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. He settled in the United States in 1947. He wrote numerous novels and

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

in both Armenian and English. He died in 1994 in

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Selected writings

Novels * Կարթագենի դուստրը (The Daughter of Carthago, Beirut, 1972) * Ադամի գիրքը (The Book of Adam, New York, 1983) Short Story Collections * Անծանօթ հոգիներ (Unknown Souls, Beirut, 1970) * Նոր աշխարհի հին սերմնացանները (The Old Sowers of the New World, Beirut, 1975) * Միջնարար (Intermezzo, New York, 1981) * Ամերիկեան շուրջպար (American Circle Dance, New York, 1986) * Անկատար (Imperfect, New York, 1987) * Մի մարդ ու մի երկիր եւ այլ պատմուածքներ (A Man and A Country and Other Stories, Watertown, Ma., 1994) * Return and Tiger and Other Short Stories, Tatul Sonentz-Papazian, tr. (Watertown, Ma., 1995) Essays * Երկու աշխարհ (Watertown, Ma., 1992) * Մտորումներ (Arlington, Ma., 2009) Karapents

References

* * People from Tabriz Armenian-language writers American people of Armenian descent Iranian emigrants to the United States Iranian people of Armenian descent 1925 births 1994 deaths Iranian male short story writers 20th-century American male writers {{Iran-writer-stub