Ani Asatryan

Ani Asatryan is an Armenian writer whose work moves between literature, image, and sound to explore how memory and identity survive conditions of rupture. Writing from Yerevan, London, Brussels, and Lisbon, she works with the fractures of the contemporary world — war, displacement, cultural amnesia, and the growing exhaustion produced by algorithmic systems that shape how we see and remember. Her fiction and hybrid texts appear in journals such as Words Without Borders and Absinthe: World Literature in Translation, and are taught in the syllabi of UC Berkeley, the University of Basel, and AUA.

 

Her cross-media projects often experiment with form as a mode of witnessing. The quadrilingual graphic narrative One Meme Away from War, created within the EU Creative Europe programme and presented at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025, examines how digital images circulate trauma through accelerated online spaces. Her forthcoming novel “Inimitable”, written during her residency at Villa Empain (Boghossian Foundation, Brussels), investigates transformation and the instability of personal and collective memory.

 

In 2026, Asatryan is expanding into sound with ZaBell, a curatorial sound project, exploring voice as an archive at a moment when attention is increasingly fragmented. Across mediums, her work treats poetry not as genre but as method — a way of slowing perception, resisting algorithmic fatigue, and mapping what remains when the world fractures.