YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The literary taste was distorted so much in the Armenian reality that it isn't ready to perceive neither modern world nor local serious literature. Eduard Militonian, Head of the Publishing Agency of RA Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs, declared this at the September 16 press conference. According to him, especially text-books make the Armenian reader one-sided and he is more inclined to a historic material. In Militonian's opinion, that's why the modern literature was put aside in the Armenian reality and isn't taken serious by the society. He mentioned that the situation is the same in Spyurk where they only speak and write about the Genocide. "Unfortunately, there are few great Armenians on the map of world's fiction," agency's head said. Eduard Militonian said that a number of programs were implemented in the recent 4-5 years, works by modern Armenian writers were published in other languages for the purpose of presenting the Armenian culture, Armenian literature abroad. He informed that the anthology of modern Armenian poets will be published in German soon and negotiations are carried out for publishing it in Spanish and Persian languages as well. Aghasi Ayvazian's collected works will be also published in English.

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