Diana Der Hovanessian | |
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| Born | May 21, 1934 Worcester, Massachusetts |
| Died | March 1, 2018 (aged 83) |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Alma mater | Boston University, Harvard University |
| Genre | Poetry |
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Diana Der Hovanessian (May 21, 1934 – March 1, 2018[1][2][3]), Armenian American poet, translator, and author. Much of the subject of her poetry was about Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. She wrote and published over twenty-five books.
Diana Der Hovanessian was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to an Armenian family.[4] She received her education at Boston University, majoring in English, and then continued her education at Harvard University, studying under Robert Lowell.[5] She became an American literature professor at Yerevan State University, and twice a Fulbright Professor of Armenian Poetry. She led many workshops including Boston University, Bard College, and Columbia University, as well as being a visiting poet and lecturer on American poetry, Armenian poetry in translation. and the literature of human rights in the United States and abroad.[6] For over thirty years she served as the president of the New England Poetry Club,[7] and was on the translation board of Columbia University.[8] She worked as a poet in the Massachusetts schools.[9]
Three volumes of her poetry were translated into Armenian and published in Yerevan. Her works were also translated into Greek, French and Romanian.[10] Der Hovanessian's poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, Paris Review, the Writer's Almanac, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, and The Nation, among many others.
Diana Der Hovanessian's awards include:[11]
Her poetry has been translated into Armenian, Greek, French and Romanian.
