Agapi Mkrtchian (*1956, Armenia) is a poet, prose writer, translator and teacher. After studying in Yerevan, Jena and Frankfurt am Main, she has lived in Germany since 1987. From 1993 to 2022 she was a teacher at a comprehensive school in Wiesbaden, taught briefly at the Colegio Alemán Nicaragüense in Managua in 2023 and then returned to Wiesbaden. She has published volumes of poetry and short stories such as Meine andere Hälfte (2006) and An jenem weißen Abend (2010) as well as translations of Armenian literature, including works by Parujr Sewak and Howhannes Tumanjan. Her texts have been published in Armenia and the diaspora. She has received several awards for her translations, most recently the Kantegh Translation Prize and the Grigor Narekazi Prize (both 2022).
