Samvel Mkrtchyan

[1] Mkrtchyan was born in Talin in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.

He graduated from Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences.

From the early 1990s, Mkrtchyan became a foremost translator of British and American literature into Armenian.

His list of translations started with a collection including William Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, and A Lover’s Complaint (1991), followed by The Rape of Lucrece (2004) and new editions of the Sonnets in 2004 and 2013, the latter also including the Bard’s long and short poems.

He did not leave aside the lyrics of contemporary names like Leonard Cohen (Songs of Love and Hate, 2012) and Charles Bukowski (The Genius of the Crowd and Other Poems, 2013), and translations from Armenian authors like William Saroyan (1992), William Michaelian (Ancient Language, 2005), and Garin Hovannisian (Family of Shadows, 2009).