Christopher Atamian Named Winner of  2017 Tölölyan Literature Prize

The Regional Executive Committee of Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society of Eastern United States announced the winner of the ^4th Minas and Kohar Tölölyan Prize in Contemporary Literature,  Christopher Atamian for his poetry collection entitled A Poet in Washington Heights. The book is forthcoming from the Nauset Press publishers.

Christopher Atamian was the winner of the inaugural Minas and Kohar Tölölyan Prize in Contemporary Literature, for his translation of Nigoghos Sarafian’s The Bois de Vincennes.

Atamian is a translator, writer, and director. In 2006, he produced the OBIE Award-winning play “Trouble in Paradise”