Viken Berberian

Viken Berberian, born in Lebanon to an Armenian family, grew up in Los Angeles. He studied at UCLA, Columbia University, and the London School of Economics.

His first novel, The Cyclist (Le Cycliste translated from American by Claro, Au Diable Vauvert 2002), has been translated into Italian, Hebrew, and Dutch. His novel Das Kapital (translated from American by Claro, Gallmeister, 2009) was partly written in Marseille. He is also the co-author, with Yann Kebbi, of La structure est pourrie, camarade (Actes Sud, 2017). His works offer a mischievous satire of economic and political injustices.

Berberian has also written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The New York Review of Books, Le Monde Diplomatique, Foreign Affairs, Granta, The International Herald Tribune, Bomb, The Los Angeles Times and Inculte, a quarterly philosophical and literary review. He teaches rhetoric and comic books at the American University of Armenia.