American citizens Peter Balakian, the poet, writer and academic and Sako Shahinian the illustrator were both originally of which nationality?
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Peter Balakian Peter Balakian (Armenian: Փիթըր Պալաքեան , born June 13, 1951) is an Armenian American poet, writer and academic, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2016.
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Sako Shahinian Sako Shahinian (Armenian: Սաքո Շահինյան ; born 1980) is an American-Armenian illustrator whose artwork has been featured in System of a Down projects.
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Lucas Samaras Lucas Samaras (born September 14, 1936) is an artist who was born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. He participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for Segal's plaster sculptures. Claes Oldenburg, in whose Happenings he also participated, later referred to Samaras as one of the "New Jersey school," which also included Kaprow, Segal, George Brecht, Robert Whitman, Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks and Roy Lichtenstein. Samaras previously worked in painting, sculpture, and performance art, before beginning work in photography.
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Peter A. Balaskas Peter A. Balaskas (Born 1969 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author of speculative fiction.
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Alfian Sa'at Alfian bin Sa'at (born 18 July 1977) is a Singaporean writer, poet and playwright. He is a Muslim of Minangkabau, Javanese and Hakka descent. He is known for his provocative works and is often referred to as his country's "enfant terrible".
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Mohammad Radvand Mohammad Radvand, born in 1956, also known as Michael Radvand, is an Iranian modernist artist. Radvand's works have been featured in galleries both in the United States and Iran, such as the
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Alex Saviuk Alex Saviuk (born August 17, 1952) is an American comics artist primarily known for his work on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.
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Sacha Moldovan Sacha Moldovan (Russian: Соломон Вайнштейн "Solomon Vaynshteyn"; November 4, 1901 – 1982) was a Russian-born American expressionist and post-impressionist painter.
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Shaul Shats Shaul Shats (born 1944) (variant names Shaul Shatz, Saul Shatz) is an Israeli painter, printmaker and illustrator, born in 1944 in Kibbutz Sarid, Israel. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1965–66), the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (1967), and the Freie Akademie, The Hague (1967). Shats taught at the Bezalel Academy from 1978-82. He won the Israel Museum Prize for Illustration (1990), the Jerusalem Prize (1992), the Ben Yitzhak Prize for Illustration of Israeli Children's Books (1992), and the Ish-Shalom Prize.
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Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов ; 21 August 1894 - 20 August 1971) was a Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator, art teacher and Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, and was regarded as one of the founders and brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting.
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Nick Samaras Nick Samaras is a poet and essayist, the son of Bishop Kallistos Samaras, a prominent Greek Orthodox Clergyman and theologian. He was born in Foxton, Cambridgeshire, England, living there and on the island of Patmos, Greece, later settling in Woburn, Massachusetts, his father's home town. His first book of poetry, "Hands of the Saddlemaker" received the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His next book is American Psalm, World Psalm (Ashland Poetry Press, 2014). His individual poems have been featured in "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", "The Paris Review", "Poetry", "The New Republic", "Kenyon Review", and many other publications. He earned his MFA from Columbia University and his doctorate from the University of Denver. Currently, he lives in West Nyack, New York.
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Jak Ihmalyan Jak İhmalyan (Armenian: Ժակ Իխմալյան , July 30, 1922 in Istanbul, Turkey - April, 1978 in Moscow, Russia) was a painter, political activist, poet, and professor of Armenian origin.
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Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou (November 20, 1940 – May 11, 2015) was an Iranian poet, author, and literary critic. Born in Tehran, Iran. He has been a founder member, a member of the executive board, and editor of the journal of the Writers' Association of Iran, in which capacity has opposed both the former regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the Islamic Republic of Iran, speaking out against censorship.
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Iwan Bala Iwan Bala (born Richard Iwan Ellis Roberts) is a Welsh artist, born May 1956 in Sarnau, Merionethshire, near Bala.
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Sevan Nişanyan Sevan Nișanyan (Western Armenian: Սեւան Նշանեան , born 21 December 1956) is a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, travel writer, researcher and polymath.
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Shahla Aghapour Shahla Aghapour also known as Shahla Aghapour-Benakohell (شهلا آقاپور) (born in Tehran) is an Iranian artist, author and gallery director living in Germany. She works both as a writer and poet, as well as a painter, sculptor, performance artist and director of Galerie-Benakohell.
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Samuel Khachikian Samuel Khachikian (Armenian: Սամուէլ Խաչիկեան ] ; Persian: ساموئل خاچیکیان‎ ‎ ;October 21, 1923, Tabriz Iran, – 22 October 2001, Tehran) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor of Armenian descent. He was one of the most influential figures in Iran's movie industry and was nicknamed "Iran's Hitchcock".
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Istvan Banyai Istvan Banyai (born February 27, 1949 in Budapest, Hungary) received his BFA from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest and gained prominence as a commercial illustrator and animator in the mid-1980s when he emigrated to the United States.
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Armen Der Kiureghian Armen Der Kiureghian (Armenian: Արմէն Տէր-Կիւրեղեան , 10 April 1947), is an Iranian-born Armenian-American academic, serving as the president of American University of Armenia (2015), Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
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Hamlet Isakhanli Hamlet Abdulla oglu Isayev (Azerbaijani: "Hamlet Abdulla oğlu İsayev" ] ) (born March 1, 1948, Kosali, near Gardabani, Georgia) is an Azerbaijani mathematician, poet, science and social science writer, living founder of Khazar University who served as founding president from April 1991 to September 2010. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Trustees, Khazar University (beginning from September, 2010); founder of integrated primary, secondary and high schools (Dunya School); and founder of a publishing house (all in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan) as well as a translator of poetry, lecturer, and editor.
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Alexander Kedrin Alexander Kedrin (born 1940 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is an artist who lives in the United States. Kedrin is an abstract expressionist (or "mystical abstract romanticist"), and creates both paintings and sculpture. He was educated at Binkov Art College and Ostrowsky Art Institute, and considers himself a student of Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky and Antoni Gaudí.
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Marc Simont Marc Simont (November 23, 1915 – July 13, 2013) was a Paris-born American artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books. Inspired by his father, Spanish painter Joseph Simont, he began drawing at an early age. Simont settled in New York City in 1935 after encouragement from his father, attended the New York National School of Design, and served three years in the military.