Background
Her father was an opera singer and mother a ballet-dancer.
Her father was an opera singer and mother a ballet-dancer.
She graduated the Yerevan State University as a Russian philologist.
Since 1990, she has been married to Kalle Käsper, an Estonian writer and translator. Before moving to Estonia, Gohar Markosjan used to work as a doctor in Yerevan. Markosjan-Käsper"s best-known work is probably the novel Penelope (translated into French, German - as Penelope, die Listenreiche, Dutch and Spanish).
Her novels Helena and The Caryatides have also been successful in Russia and Western Europe.
She wrote in Russian.
Markosjan-Käsper was also a member of the Estonian Writers" Union.