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Tatev Chakhian (1992 Yerevan) is a Poland-based Armenian poet, translator and visual artist. She graduated from the faculty of Cultural Anthropology at Yerevan State University & has a degree in International Relations and Border Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. She is fluent in Armenian, English, Russian, and Polish. She published her first volume of poetry in Armenian, unIDentical, in 2016. The book is an “unofficial document” which grants the reader a passage from the poet's personal reality to the social one allowing them to wander in and between the spaces. The book was nominated for the 2018 European Poet of Freedom, the 5th edition of the Literary Award of the City of Gdansk and was published in Polish as Dowó (nie)osobisty [Non-identity card]. In 2015 she received the Sahak Partev literary prize for Armenian literature and the Literary Award of the first lady of Armenia. In 2016 she received the annual prize of "Obywatelska" Polish magazine and the Polish literary award by Dionis Maliszewski. Tatev combines poetry with mixed media and collaborates with urban artists, filmmakers and musicians. Tatev translates and promotes Polish poetry and Iranian contemporary poetry, as well as translating authors from English and Russian. Currently, she is the co-editor of www.iranliter.com platform of translated Iranian literature and Arteria literary magazine in Armenia. She is a member of PEN Armenia.