Elena Durgaryan is a professional who practices as an aesthetician with an ethnic minority background. She has grown up in a culturally and materially rich family and experienced early and rapid social and emotional developments that affected her identity development. Elena’s professional profile as an aesthetician, writer, consultant, and tutor highlights her early fascination with art and the visual culture of both her childhood and early adulthood. As a result of these interests and her early professional experiences, Elena developed an acute awareness of the role of ethnicity and nationality in defining the parameters of beauty.
Elena pursued a university degree, got a degree in literature from a renowned college in Sofia, and pursued graduate studies in education at one of the best universities of her country, University of Nottingham in England. However, despite her educational qualifications and academic career, Elena Durgaryan’s personal life remains filled with contradictions. Elena constantly suffered identity crises due to her dual citizenship status and her public nationality (Romanian and Turkish). Elena is usually portrayed as an ordinary, reserved, and traditional woman. However, Elena was also a highly intellectual, vibrant, and theatrical woman who enjoyed a colorful and adventurous public life.
Elena Durgaryan’s most prolific and long-running literary works include the novels The Heavens Weep (2021), Mother Nature’s Heart (2021), Elena Georgian (2021), and Elena andrushiloff (2021). Elena’s work as an actress and writer did not diminish her love for art, literature, and the visual arts. Elena remained steadfast in her love for acting, especially stage and film acting, and even appeared in one play as a chorus girl. Elena enjoys being involved in artistic matters, but has no plans to make a film career. Her greatest passion is being with her two children, studying and loving them.