Making Literature Travel

Ararat Şekeryan was born in İstanbul in 1987. He studied Russian Language and Literature in Istanbul University and at Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He is now completing an MA in Comparative Literature at İstanbul Bilgi University, focusing on Western Armenian Literature. Ararat has been working at Aras Publishing House as an editor since 2007. Aras Publishing was founded in İstanbul in 1993 and sooncame to be recognized as a “window into Armenian literature”. With its Turkish and Armenian books, it has now established itself as one of the few Turkish publishing houses producing works in two languages, with an intention to serve as a bridge between the cultural legacy of Turkey’s Armenians (now centered around Istanbul as a minority) and the country’s diverse contemporary culture.