Not Only Franz Werfel: The Lesser-Known Works of Foreign Writers on the Armenian Genocide

Bakhchinyan, Artsvi · 2025

Bakhchinyan surveys little-known literary works from 28 countries that treat the Armenian Genocide in whole or in part, spanning poetry, prose and drama across nearly every genre from historical fiction to horror and children's literature. He deliberately excludes authors of Armenian origin and concentrates on material absent from the 1996 Armenian Question encyclopedia or published after it. He finds that foreign authors generally worked from non-Armenian eyewitness testimony, and that they most often render the Genocide through the fate of a survivor: frequently a woman or child. Writers covered include Carducci, Galsworthy, Huxley, Cheever, Updike, Iskander, Kalinoski and Moleskis.

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