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Viken Berberian

Viken Berberian is a novelist and author of The Cyclist and Das Kapital: a novel of love & money markets.

His writings have appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Le Monde Diplomatique, the Los Angeles Times and Inculte, a French literary and philosophical quarterly.

Berberian was awarded a Bourse de Creation from the Centre National du Livre of the French Ministry of Culture (2009-2010).

He was educated at Columbia University and the London School of Economics.


“Rumors. They are there to be denied, or if the market is open, to be traded on.”
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“Nature. He disliked its prickly stems, its bramble and bush, the obstinate precision of its cycles, its preconfigured calendar, the coded tapestry of its hills, standing stubbornly in the way of human progress.”
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“All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.”
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