SECOND CONGRESS OF ARMENIAN WRITERS WRITING IN FOREIGN
LANGUAGES TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 10-17
27-06-2007 20:10:00 | Armenia | Culture
YEREVAN, JUNE 27, NOYAN TAPAN. The second congress of the
Armenian writers writing in foreign languages will be held on
October 10-17, in which more than thirty Armenian writers from
the U.S., Canada, France, Switzerland, Lebanon, Iran and Turkey
will take part. As Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the Union of
Writers of Armenia, informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, the
first four days of the congress under the title of "Identity and
Literature" will be held in Armenia, after which it will
continue its work in Artsakh. Anthology "Armenian writers
writing in foreign languages" will be published in Armenian
within the framework of the cogress' preparation.
It was mentioned that the majority of the participants will
arrive in Armenia for the first time. Besides the Armenian
writers writing in foreign languages, Diasporan Armenian writers
from different colonies of Diaspora will also take part in the
congress.
L. Ananian also said that the writers will have meetings
with high-ranking officials of RA and NKR and will take part in
the Translators Holiday in Oshakan.