Alicia Ghiragossian

In 1967, Ghiragossian published a collection of poetry (Being and Punctuation), having published her first book the previous year. The collection was translated into Italian and illustrated by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.^[1] The same year, an edition of her poems (Roots and Essence) was translated into Armenian, and became a bestseller in Armenia and among the Armenian diaspora.^[2] Writing in Spanish, English, and Armenian,^[4] she went on to publish more than 60 books, most of which are poetry collections. She also translated an edition of the Armenian poet Raffi into Spanish.^[1]

Ghiragossian has been variously recognised for her poetry. She was nominated for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature;^[3] the award was later given to the Italian playwright Dario Fo. In the same year, she was made an honorary citizen of Armenia,^[1] while the Armenian National Academy of Sciences awarded her an honorary doctorate.^[1][5]

• Simonian Kalaidjian, Azadouhi (1997). "Alicia Ghiragossian: the trilingual poet". Al-Raida. 14: 44–5. Archived from the original on November 5, 2020.