Tatev Chakhian

Tatev Chakhian (born 1992) is a Poland-based Armenian poet, artist, editor and translator.

Born in Yerevan in 1992, in a family of pedagogues.

She graduated from the faculty of Cultural Anthropology at Yerevan State University, then got a degree in International Relations and Border Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Her awards include the "Granish 2022" award in the category of Poetry of The Year, the Dionizy Maliszewski literary prize (2017), the Gazeta Obywatelska prize (2016), the First Lady of Armenia's literary award (2016), and the Sahak Partev prize (2015).

Her debut collection of poetry, Dowód (nie)osobisty ((Non)-Identity Card), got published in 2016 in Armenian and in 2018 in Polish.

Selections of her poetry have been translated into English, German, Polish, Czech, Persian, Macedonian, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Bengali, Turkish, etc. and have been published in anthologies and literary magazines worldwide.

Tatev Chakhian translates and promotes Polish poetry, Iranian contemporary poetry, as well as poetry and prose from Russian and English.

Chakhian combines poetry with visual arts, such as paper collages, collaborates with artists, filmmakers and musicians.

Her first poetry collection was nominated for the 2018 European Poet of Freedom Award, an award dedicated to "honouring and promoting phenomena in poetry that deal with one of the most crucial subjects for contemporary readers – freedom – and, at the same time, are characterized by outstanding artistic values."