Narine Abgaryan was born in 1971 in Berd, Armenia, in the family of a doctor and a school teacher. She graduated from the State University of Linguistic Studies in Erevan, with a diploma of a teacher of Russian language and literature. Abgaryan is the author of a dozen of books, including her bestselling (over 100,000 copies sold!) and prize-winning trilogy about Manyunya, a busy and troublesome 11-year-old in a small Armenian town Berd. Abgaryan’s other book for children, Semyon Andreich, received BABY-NOSE from New Literature Prize in 2013, as Russia's best children’s book of the decimal. Narine Abgaryan's acclaimed novel for the adults, Three Apples Fell From the Sky, has been translated into 12 languages and won Yasnaya Polyana Award in 2018. Since 1993 Narine lives in Moscow.
