YEREVAN, JUNE 4, NOYAN TAPAN. At the international exhibition-fair of books held in Salonika Armenian publishers reached an agreement with their Turkish colleagues to translate one of the novels of Turkish writer Elif Shafak, which presents the history of an Armenian family having experienced the Armenian Genocide. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Vahan Khachatrian, Chairman of National Association of Armenian Publishers, it has not been decided yet who will translate the Turkish writer's work into Armenian. V. Khachatrian said that in the recent years countries participating in international exhibitions provide funds to publishers of another countries for spreading their literature in various languages. In particular, at this exhibition Turks offered 2-12 thousand dollars to publishers of various countries for translation of each of their books. European countries also implement similar programs in Armenia. Particularly, over the past 15 years nearly 150 books were published by Frenchmen. "It is time that the Armenian authorities also provide funds for this purpose, in order to spread works of Armenian writers in various languages all over the world," V. Khachatrian said.

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