Armenian American writer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize Peter Balakian is actively following the events taking place in Artsakh.

“I follow the events with the help of my friends and read the news in the media. I know peaceful negotiations are taking place. I fully hope the Armenians maintain control over Karabakh,” Peter Balakian, who is currently in Yerevan, told NEWS.am’s correspondent.

The Armenian American writer, who is the author of books devoted to the Armenian Genocide, still isn’t planning on writing a book devoted to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

In 2003, The New York Times recognized Peter Balakian’s documental book “Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response” as a Notable Book. In 1998, the memoir “Black Dog of Fate” was recognized as Book of the Year. In 2010, Balakian released the Armenian version of the book of poems “Sad Days of Light”.

Balakian and his colleague Arik Sevak translated the extensive memoir of his grandfather’s brother, Archbishop Grigoris Balakian entitled “Armenian Golgotha” into English and published it.

In 2016, Peter Balakian received the Pulitzer Prize in the Poetry category for his series of poems entitled “Ozone Journal”.