Hamlet Sarkissian is an author, playwright and filmmaker, having written and directed the feature drama "Camera Obscura" (2000). Lovers in The Fog is his first novel.
Born in 1962 in Yerevan, Armenia (formerly the U.S.S.R.), Hamlet is the son of prominent Soviet dissident and underground novelist Vache Sarkissian, who spent 18 years in Soviet gulag camps and KGB prisons. Life as the son of a political prisoner shaped Hamlet’s world view; he joined his father to fight communism even as his own artistic talents began to emerge. As a young man, his studies at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography were cut short in the wake of his father’s 1987 suicide.
Driven to leave the oppressive Soviet system, Hamlet later emigrated to the U.S. with sponsorship by the International Institute of Human Rights. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife, French writer, Donatella Gomelsky-Guichard, and their three children. To learn more, visit hamletsarkissian.com.
Hamlet Sarkissian's Projects
Lovers in the Fog
Hamlet Sarkissian’s Lovers in the Fog (Page Publishing, April 2, 2019) intermingles a search for rom... more