Baret Magarian

Baret Magarian is a British-Armenian writer. He began his career as a freelancer, writing features for The Times, The Guardian, The Observer and New Statesman. He published his first novel, The Fabrications, in 2017.

Early life and education

Magarian was born in Kensington, London to Armenian Cypriot parents who had moved to England from Nicosia in 1960. His maternal grandfather Hovaness was the Armenian priest of Nicosia. Magarian studied English literature at University College, Durham.

Works

In the short story Inferno, Magarian describes a father-son story and a time arc spanning 70 years in which the beginning and end are dominated by war.