Naneh’s work, mainly as a memoirist and reviewer, has been published in The Cambridge Review of Books, the New Welsh Review, and EVN Report, among others. She is interested in late-Soviet Armenian social history, as well as arts and cultural representations of Armenians in the UK. She Guest Co-Edited the landmark Special Issue of the London-based Wasafiri Magazine of International Contemporary Writing, Armenia(n)s: Elevation (2024).
Naneh Hovhannisyan
My Hit List
Naneh Hovhannisyan’s cultural highlights
The writer on the humanness of Marina Abramović's performance The Artist is Present, the play English by Sanaz Toossi, the mesmerising documentary film 1489 from Shoghakat Vardanyan, connecting to Ireland through Fintan O'Toole's book We Don't Know Ourselves and the painting 'Salome' by Vardges Surenyants.
2nd September 2026
Original Series
Sketches from the edges
Memories of an upbringing in the outskirts of Yerevan, Armenia, known as 'Bangladesh'.
5th June 2026
Naneh Hovhannisyan
Naneh is a memoirist and reviewer, whose work explores the reflection of historic events on the social and cultural makeup of late-Soviet and independent Armenia.