Matiossian was born in
Montevideo,
Uruguay on March 6, 1964. He moved to
Buenos Aires in 1973. In 1991 he graduated from the School of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. From 1992 to 2000, he was associate professor of
Armenian History and Religion at the School of Eastern Studies,
Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires). He has lived in
New Jersey,
USA since 2000. In 2006 he earned his
Ph.D. in history from the National Academy of Sciences of
Armenia.[3] He was director of the Armenian National Education Committee (New York) from 2010-2019.[4] His fields of interest cover Armenian history and
literature, both ancient and modern. He is an active contributor to the periodical press in
Armenian,
English, and
Spanish.
Selected bibliography
Written
Կոստան Զարեանի շուրջ (On Gostan Zarian), Antelias (Lebanon): Kevork Melidinetzi Literary Prize, 1998
Անվերջ վերադարձ. Հայաստանի ճանապարհները (1988-2004) (Eternal Return: the Roads of Armenia, 1988-2004), Yerevan: Zangak-97, 2005
Հարաւային կողմն աշխարհի. հայերը Լատին Ամերիկայի մէջ սկիզբէն մինչեւ 1950 (The Southern Side of the Earth: Armenians in Latin America from the Beginnings to 1950), Antelias (Lebanon): Richard and Tina Carolan Literary Fund, 2005
Շամախեցի պարուհին. Արմէն Օհանեանի կեանքն ու գործը (The Dancer of Shamakha: Life and Work of Armen Ohanian), Yerevan: Press of the Museum of Literature and Art, 2007 (coauthored with Artsvi Bakhchinyan)
Pasado sin retorno, futuro que espera: los armenios en la Argentina, ayer y hoy, Montevideo: Asociación Cultural Uruguay-Armenia, 2011
Armenian Language Matters, New York: Armenian National Education Committee, 2019
The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History, and 'Medz Yeghern', London: I. B. Tauris, 2022, 279 pages
A Woman of the World: Armen Ohanian, the 'Dancer of Shamakha', Fresno: The Press at California State University, 2022 (coauthored with Artsvi Bakhchinyan)
Edited
Los armenios en América del Sur: Primeras Jornadas de Estudio, Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigación Armenológica, 1992
Bedrós Hadjian, El cinturón, translated by Berg Agemian, Buenos Aires: Akian, 2004
Bedros Hadjian, Հարաւը Սփիւռքի մէջ (The South in the Diaspora), Aleppo: Cilicia Press, 2008
Հայաստանի պատմական ատլաս / Atlas of Historical Armenia, New York: Armenian National Education Committee, 2012
Կոմիտաս-150 / Gomidas-150, New York: Sis Publications, 2019
Gurghen Sarkissian, Իմ յուշերը (1914-1921) / My Memoirs, New York: Sis Publications, 2021
Co-edited
Charents: Poet of the Revolution, Costa Mesa (Ca.): Mazda Press, 2003 (with Marc Nichanian)
Gurgen Mahari, Երկերի լիակատար ժողովածու (Integral Collection of Works), vol. I-XIV, compiled by Grigor Achemyan, Yerevan: Antares, 2014-2021 (with Arqmenik Nikoghosyan)
Translated
Sarkís Gulludjian, El arte de vivir, Buenos Aires: n.p., 1985
Sarkís Gulludjian, La fuente de la luz, Buenos Aires: Shoghag, 1986
Eghishé Charénts, Libro del camino, Buenos Aires: Avant, 1987, 63 pages
Bedrós Hadjian, Grandes figuras de la cultura armenia (siglos V-X), Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 1987
Sarkís Gulludjian, Dos conferencias esclarecedoras, Buenos Aires: Asociación Cultural Armenia Hamazkaín, 1988, 108 pages
Bedrós Hadjian, Grandes figuras de la cultura armenia (siglos XI-XIII), Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 1990
Iervant Odian, El camarada Panchuní, Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 1992
Paruyr Sevak, El árbol solitario, Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 1995
Bedrós Hadjian, La palabra silenciada: las pérdidas intelectuales del Genocidio Armenio, Buenos Aires: Armengraf, 2001
Martirós de Yerzinka, Hovhannes Aprakunetzi, Sarguis el Monje, Itinerarios, Yerevan: Academia Linguistica Internacional, 2001, 50 pages (with Vahan Sarkisian)
Otros tiempos: poesía contemporánea de Armenia, Yerevan: Unión de Escritores de Armenia, 2006
Bedrós Hadjian, Cien años, cien historias: Armenia y los armenios en el siglo XX, Buenos Aires: Editum, 2007
George (Kevork) Apelian, No vendas a mi hermanita, mamá (historias de un martirio eterno), Buenos Aires: n.p., 2009
Artak Movsisian, La meseta sagrada: Armenia en la geografía espiritual del antiguo Medio Oriente, Yerevan: Universidad de Erevan, 2010 (with Ruben Artzruni)
Artsvi Bakhchinyan, Armenian Cinema-100: The Early History of Armenian Cinema (from 1895 to mid 1920s), Yerevan: Academy of Cinema of Armenia and Union of Armenian Cinematographers, 2012 (with the collaboration of
Susanna Mkrtchyan)