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After years of writing in near-total solitude, Ani presents a debut trilingual graphic novel, One Meme Away from War, this autumn—intentionally composed for artistic community— at the Frankfurter Buchmesse (Oct, Messe Frankfurt, Germany). In Jul 2024, Ani launched the Raw Reading Sessions at Villa Empain, Brussels literary interventions and dialogues featuring pre-publication excerpts from the graphic novel. In 2025, the Raw Reading Sessions expanded across Europe and North America and is now extending to the United Kingdom, with forthcoming sessions in Delikipos (Sep 2025), Frankfurt (Oct 2025), and Brighton (Jan 2026). One Meme Away from War is anchored in the story of Maro, a child in an orphanage during World War I, whose voice emerges from archival diaries and memoirs, interwoven with contemporary testimonies. Author resists the flattening of war into statistics or distant news cycles. In doing so, Ani Asatryan demonstrates how fragmented testimonies—archival memoirs, diary fragments, oral accounts—can be recomposed into a polyphonic narrative that refuses both silence and spectacle. One Meme Away from War is the Armenian contribution to The Last Night on Earth, a tri-national anthology comprising three graphic novels from Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine produced by the ARI Literary Foundation and funded by the EU Creative Europe.
Selected Features
Absinthe: World Literature in Translation (Michigan)
Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation (Brussels)
American University of Armenia
Literature Initiative Georgia
ARI Literature Foundation
Komora Publishing House
Frankfurter Buchmesse
Words Without Borders
UNIBAS / UC Berkeley
EU Creative Europe
East-West Resident
National broadcast
Creative Armenia
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