Role: Author

Nishan Parlakian is emeritus professor of drama at John Jay College. He is a playwright and a director who has staged plays in Armenian and in English. He has written extensively on Armenian theater, and he has translated numerous plays. He is a past president of the Pirandello Society and coeditor of Modern Armenian Drama: An Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2001).

Nonny Hogrogian has twice won children’s literature’s highest honor, the Caldecott Medal, for her books Always Room for One More and One Fine Day. Her illustrations to Virginia Tashjian’s Armenian folktale collections Once There Was and Was Not and Three Apples Fell from Heaven and her husband’s retelling of the Armenian tale The Golden Bracelet are beloved by several generations of Armenian children.