Leonardo Alishan
Leonardo Paul Alishan (1951–2005) was an Armenian-Iranian writer, scholar, and translator. He was a professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at the
Ahmad Shamlu who dedicated one of his poems to Alishan. He was a member of the Armenian Catholic Church
Biography
Leonardo ("Nardo") Alishan was born to Michael Alishan and Annette Nazloomian in
University of Texas at Austin in 1978. He moved to Utah and joined the University of Utah
's Middle Eastern Studies department in the same year.
He married Neli Assadourian on July 19, 1974. They had three children, Michael, Ara, and Eileen, and were divorced in 1993. He died in a house fire in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 8, 2005.
Poetry collections
- Dancing Barefoot on Broken Glass, Ashod Press, 1991.
- Through a Dewdrop, Open Letter Press, 2000.
- Dead Man's Shadow: Collected Poems, Blind Owl Press, 2010.
Short stories
- Free Fall: Collected Short Stories, Mazda Publishers, 2010.
References
- Lucian Stone, "Leonardo Paul Alishan's Shadow: A Biographical Introduction," in Dead Man's Shadow: Collected Poems, Blind Owl Press, 2010, pp. xiii-xlviv.
- Rubina Peroomian, "The Restless World of Leonardo Alishan (March 1951-January 2005)," in Genocide Studies and Prevention 1/3 (2006): 289-303.
- Obituary, Salt Lake Tribune, January 13, 2005.
Awards
- Academy of American Poets Award
- Christopher Morely Poetry Award
- Irving Writing Award
- Atlanta Review International Merit Award
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