Peter Balakian's Black Dog of Fate published in France

Peter Balakian’s prize-winning memoir Black Dog of Fate has been published in French by the Metispresses and translated by M. Georges Festa.

According to The Armenian Weekly, Balakian will be part of the Festival Armenie-Armenies sponsored by France’s National Center for the Book. From Oct. 16-21, Balakian and about two dozen other Armenian writers, artists, and musicians from Armenia, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and the United States will tour France on the Orient Express and do events in various venues in Marseilles, Avignon, Valence, Lyon, and Paris.

The tour will begin in Marseilles on Sun, Oct. 16—at 339 Avenue du Prado at 6 pm—and continue with the following schedule: Oct. 16-17: Marseilles; Oct. 18: Avignon and Valence; Oct. 19: Lyon; Oct. 20-21: Paris.

In Marseilles, Balakian will read from and lecture about his great-uncle’s memoir of the genocide Armenian Golgotha. The English edition of Armenian Golgotha was translated by Peter Balakian and Aris Sevag and published to international acclaim in 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf. Bishop Grigoris Balakian was bishop of the Armenian church of Southern France from the mid 1920’s until his death in 1934, and is responsible for the construction of the Armenian churches and schools there.