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    PRESS RELEASE
    National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
    395 Concord Ave.
    Belmont, MA 02478
    Phone: 617-489-1610
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Contact: Marc A. Mamigonian


    DAVID KHERDIAN AND NONNY HOGROGIAN TO DISCUSS NEW BOOKS AT NAASR


    The acclaimed husband and wife team of author David Kherdian and
    author/illustrator Nonny Hogrogian will discuss and read from their
    new books on Thursday evening, November 4, at 8:00 p.m., at the Center
    and Headquarters of the National Association for Armenian Studies and
    Research (NAASR), 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, Mass. This event marks
    the couple's first Boston-area appearance in many years.

    Between them, Kherdian and Hogrogian have written, edited, or
    illustrated over one hundred books. Their work has encompassed the
    Armenian Genocide, life in America as first-generation Armenians,
    children's books, memoirs in verse and prose, folklore, and the
    mystical teachings of Gurdjieff.



    Acclaimed Poet, Memoirist, Translator

    Kherdian is well known as the author of the Newberry Award Winner The
    Road From Home: The Story of An Armenian Girl, which detailed his
    mother's experiences in surviving the Armenian Genocide. Read by
    students and adults alike, it has contributed greatly to increasing
    awareness of the Genocide.

    He has been widely recognized as one of the most important and
    distinctive voices in Armenian-American poetry for nearly four
    decades. The title poem to his collection On the Death of My Father
    was praised by William Saroyan as "one of the best lyric poems in
    American poetry." Kherdian has also memorably chronicled his youth
    growing up in Racine, Wisconsin, and his experiences as an Armenian
    American in such works as Homage to Adana, Friends: A Memoir, I
    Remember Root River, The Dividing River/The Meeting Shore, and My
    Racine, among many others.



    New Book of Ancient Poems

    Kherdian's newest book is The Song of the Stork and Other Early and
    Ancient Armenian Songs, a spirited translation of an important
    collection of poems first compiled and published by the Mekhitarist
    priest and scholar Levond Alishan in Venice in 1850. Kherdian writes
    of these songs/poems that "their humility and troubled faith draws a
    response from that place in us that is reserved for the essential and
    true - from our own unspoiled reservoir of spirit, that understands
    what has been lost and can yet be regained." The book features
    illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian.



    Award Winning Author-Illustrator

    Nonny Hogrogian has twice won children's literature's highest honor,
    the Caldecott Medal, for her books Always Room for One More and One
    Fine Day. Her illustrations to Virginia Tashjian's Armenian folktale
    collections Once There Was and Was Not and Three Apples Fell from
    Heaven and her husband's retelling of the Armenian tale The Golden
    Bracelet are beloved by several generations of Armenian children.

    Hogrogian's newest book, Finding My Name, is a memoir of her first
    thirteen years growing up in the Bronx, New York. It explores both
    her efforts to find herself as a budding artist and the joys and
    difficulties of growing up as an Armenian-American torn between two
    cultures.

    Following the authors' talk and a question-and-answer period, they
    will be available to sign copies of not only their new titles but also
    selected older titles as well.

    Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). The NAASR
    bookstore will open at 7:30 p.m. The NAASR Center and Headquarters is
    located opposite the First Armenian Church and next to the U.S. Post
    Office. Ample parking is available around the building and in
    adjacent areas.
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