Armenian Christopher Peter Atamian (/əˈteɪmɪən/) is a New York-based literary critic, writer, translator, curator and filmmaker who was the recipient of the 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Born to immigrants, Christopher grew up and studied in the United States where he received his BA in literature from Harvard University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich as a Fulbright fellow.
[1] He studied at the Lycée Français de New York and graduated from Collegiate School in 1985,[2] where he was a National Merit Semifinalist[3].
AHCP seeks to exhibit the full spectrum of creators including women, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, SWANA and other artists and practices whose methods, forms and expressions have been unrecognized or marginalized.
[41] In 2013, he was awarded the Tölölyan Literary Prize[42][43] for his translation of Nigoghos Sarafian's The Bois de Vincennes.