Background
Armin Kõomägi was born on July 5, 1969, in Moldova, to an Armenian mother and an Estonian father.
Armin Kõomägi was born on July 5, 1969, in Moldova, to an Armenian mother and an Estonian father.
He is an author of six books, including two novels and four collections of short stories. Kõomägi started writing in 2003 when he was thirty-four. His first book, published in 2005, was a collection of short stories titled Amatöör (Amateur).
In 2006 he published another collection of short stories titled Nägu, mis jäi üle (The Face That Was Left Over).
This was followed in 2009 by his first novel Pagejad (Runaways), and in 2011 by his second novel Hea Firma (The Good Firm). In 2012, Kõomägi contributed to the Dalkey Archive Press published Best European Fiction 2012, which contains a collection of new fiction from European writers.