YEREVAN, MARCH 5, NOYAN TAPAN. 123 titles of children's, popular scientific, encyclopaedic, translation and musicological literature will be published by the state order system in 2008. The Armenian government allocated 135 mln 392 thousand drams (about 437 thousand USD) to the literary and publishing agency of the RA ministry of culture for this purpose. The head of the agency's publishing unit Seyranuhi Geghamian told NT correspondent that unlike in previous years, this year special attention will be paid to works presenting Armenia's cultural heritage and to musicological literature as for many years musical educational institutions were not provided with literature on the theory of music. Besides, Diasporan Armenian literature, particularly the works of some modern Diasporan Armenian prose-writers, as well as the poetic legacy of Kostan Zarian will be released. According to S. Geghamian, books and albums dedicated to the 100th anniversaries of William Saroyan and Victor Hambartsumian and to the jubilees of Minas Avetisian, Mushegh Galshoyan, Hakob Kojoyan and Romanos Melikian will be published. The albums "My Armenia", "Shoushi", "Armenian Medieval Miniature Painting" and "The History of Armenian Painting in the 19 and 20 Centuries" in Armenian, English and Russian will come out.

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