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PRESENTATION OF DIASPORAN ARMENIAN WRITER TORGOM POSTAJIAN'S THREE BOOKS TAKES PLACE IN YEREVAN
Noyan Tapan
Jun 19 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The presentation of Diasporan Armenian
writer Torgom Postajian's "Criticism and Document," "Prominent Armenian
Literary Figures" and "Shelterless Exiles" books took place on June
16 at the Writers' Union of Armenia.
The author presented in the first book analysis of modern Armenian
prose-writers' and poets' works, and in the "Prominent Armenian
Literary Figures", he presented articles dedicated to Eastern and
Western Armenian writers' life and literary activity. T.Postajian's 15
stories are involved in the "Shelterless Exiles" book, in which the
author touched upon emigration, an phenomenon pursuing the Armenian
people continuously for centuries.
According to WUA Chairman Levon Ananian, the Diasporan Armenian writer
speaks in his stories about the emigration which has for centuries
been an inseparable part of the Armenians' history. That phenomenon,
according to him, was fixed in the 70s of the 20th century as well,
reaching its apogee during the first years of newly independent
Armenia. "The struggle for physical existence made many people take
walking stick of emigration. This book appeals for soberness to
all those who attempts like mad to migrate America and a number of
European countries," L.Ananian mentioned.
According to the WUA Chairman, T.Postajian had an important
contribution in the education system of Diaspora as well: particularly,
he founded in 1990s in the U.S. the Mesropian National College which
had a great role in the issue of keeping the Armenian identity.
On the same day T.Postajian was awarded with the WUA medal, with the
memory medal of the RA Ministry of Education and Science and diploma
of the Ararat Governor.
Noyan Tapan
Jun 19 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The presentation of Diasporan Armenian
writer Torgom Postajian's "Criticism and Document," "Prominent Armenian
Literary Figures" and "Shelterless Exiles" books took place on June
16 at the Writers' Union of Armenia.
The author presented in the first book analysis of modern Armenian
prose-writers' and poets' works, and in the "Prominent Armenian
Literary Figures", he presented articles dedicated to Eastern and
Western Armenian writers' life and literary activity. T.Postajian's 15
stories are involved in the "Shelterless Exiles" book, in which the
author touched upon emigration, an phenomenon pursuing the Armenian
people continuously for centuries.
According to WUA Chairman Levon Ananian, the Diasporan Armenian writer
speaks in his stories about the emigration which has for centuries
been an inseparable part of the Armenians' history. That phenomenon,
according to him, was fixed in the 70s of the 20th century as well,
reaching its apogee during the first years of newly independent
Armenia. "The struggle for physical existence made many people take
walking stick of emigration. This book appeals for soberness to
all those who attempts like mad to migrate America and a number of
European countries," L.Ananian mentioned.
According to the WUA Chairman, T.Postajian had an important
contribution in the education system of Diaspora as well: particularly,
he founded in 1990s in the U.S. the Mesropian National College which
had a great role in the issue of keeping the Armenian identity.
On the same day T.Postajian was awarded with the WUA medal, with the
memory medal of the RA Ministry of Education and Science and diploma
of the Ararat Governor.