YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 14, NOYAN TAPAN. A large album under the title "Old Armenian Manuscripts" published at Yerevan's Tigran Mets publishing house received Grand Prix for best publishing at the Book Art 4th international competition held at the Moscow Book 20th international exhibition-fair on September 5-10. The album was printed with the sponsorship of Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II. Its authors, T. Guyumjian, G. Leman, and M. Stone, included in the album Armenian manuscripts kept in depositories of ancient manuscripts of Yerevan, Jerusalem, Mkhitarian Congregation of Venice, and in other places. Eduard Militonian, the Head of the Publishing Work Agency of the RA Ministry of Culture, reported this at the September 13 press conference. E. Militonian also said that besides the Grand Prix, the Armenian books also received prizes for their best printing quality in two nominations (the competition had nine nominations). Nairi publishing house's album under the title "Miniature Painting" (in French) received the first prize in the Art Book nomination. Henrik Igitian's album "Minas From Jajur" published by the Tigran Mets publishing house received the third prize in the same nomination. Sargis Haroutiunian's illustrated book "The Myths and Legends of Armenia" (in Russian) published by the Arevik publishing house received the third prize in the nomination Book to Children. E. Militonian said that in total 2200 organizations took part in the Moscow Book Exhibition, and 150 thousand titles of books were presented. Armenia was represented by three pavilions at the exhibition, that of the Publishing Work Agency of the RA Ministry of Culture, of the Antares publishing house, and of Armenian Book Spreaders Association.

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