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 . [1] He published his first novel, The Fabrications, in 2017. [2] [3]
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. [4] Magarian studied English literature at University College, Durham. [5]
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. [6]