Narine Abgaryan

Narine Abgaryan is a Russian writer of Armenian origin.

She was born on January 14, 1971, in the town of Berd, Tavush Region of Armenia, into the family of a doctor and a teacher. In addition to Narine, the family includes a brother and three sisters. Her paternal grandfather was Armenian, a refugee from Western Armenia, and her grandmother was Armenian, a native of Eastern Armenia, which for two hundred years was part of the Russian Empire. Her maternal grandfather was also Armenian, originally from Karabakh. Her grandmother was Russian, a native of the Arkhangelsk Region of Russia. She met her future husband at the front during the Great Patriotic War, which they both went through from beginning to end.

After receiving her secondary education at Berd Secondary School No. 2 and studying piano simultaneously at Music School No. 1, Narine entered Yerevan State Linguistic University named after Brusov. Having received a degree as a teacher of the Russian language and literature, she decided to continue her studies in Moscow, where she moved in 1994.

Soon after that she got married, and in 1995 she gave birth to a son. Moscow became the writer's second homeland.

Narine Abgaryan began her path to literary recognition by creating her own page on the popular LiveJournal. This first happened in 2005, but after two months she abandoned the idea, stopped writing, and only at the beginning of 2009 did the blog entries begin to be updated again.

The story about Manyunya, conceived by Narine, suddenly attracted the attention of writer Lara Gall, who in turn introduced Narine to Irina Kopylova, editor at Astrel-SPb. The result of their fruitful collaboration was the publication of three books by Narine Abgaryan: Manyunya, Manyunya Writes a Fantastical Novel, and I Moved Here.