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    AZG Armenian Daily #148, 23/08/2005


    Literature

    SAROYAN PRIZE FINDS WINNERS

    Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, authors of "The King of California", and George
    Hagen, author of "The Laments", won the biennial William Saroyan
    International Prize for Writing on July 19, Armenian Mirror Spectator
    informs. The first book received the Prize in non-fiction category and the
    second one in fiction category. The Stanford University Libraries and the
    William Saroyan Foundation presented the prizes, $12.500 each. The Saroyan
    Foundation was created in 1966 to encourage beginner writers. In 1990, the
    trustees handed Saroyan's literary legacy to the Stanford University. This
    year's contest gathered 125 participants in each category. Prizewinner Mark
    Arax is a famous journalist from the Los Angeles Times living in Fresno, CA.
    Wartzman lives in Los Angeles and is the editor of business-economic section
    of the paper. Arax and Wartzman document the creation of a cotton kingdom in
    the San Joaquin Valley in "The King of California". Hagen lives in Brooklyn,
    and "The Laments", being his first novel, follows a family who travels from
    Africa to England to New Jersey.

    By Hakob Tsulikian
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