Narine Abgaryan was born in 1971 in Berd, Armenia, in the family of a doctor and a school teacher. She graduated from the State University of Linguistic Studies in Yerevan, with a diploma of a teacher of Russian language and literature. Abgaryan is the internationally bestselling author of a dozen of books, including her nationally bestselling and prize-winning trilogy about Manunia, a busy and troublesome 11-year-old in a small Armenian town Berd. The author’s powerful and moving parable Three Apples Fell From the Sky was translated into 23 languages and became a long seller throughout Europe.
Since 2022 Narine Abgaryan has moved to her native Armenia, sharing her time between Armenia and Germany.