YEREVAN, MARCH 25, NOYAN TAPAN. A Week of Children's and Youth Book will be held between March 31 to April 7 in Armenia on the initiative of the Book Publishing Agency of the RA Ministry of Culture and the Union of Writers of Armenia. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the Union of Writers of Armenia, it is the 6th year the Week starts in the regions for the purpose of making active literary and cultural life: this year it will start in Vayots Dzor. Launchings and discussions of children's books, Armenian children's writers' meetings with pupils will be organized in country's schools, libraries, and cultural centers in the days of the Week of Children's and Youth Book. L. Ananian said that the ceremony of awarding of the annual prize of the Union of Writers of Armenia will take place on April 7 in Khnko Aper Children's Library. By the Union's decision this year the prize will be given to children's writer Henrik Sevan.

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