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Orange Book Prize winners are known
(Noyan Tapan - 12.11.2011)
Yesterday evening the Awards ceremony of Orange Book Prize 2011 was
held and the winners names were announced.
Novel. «Dog constellation» (Narine Kroyan) - 924 votes
Essay. «Bridge to Tanya: the extraordinary poet and the woman»,
(Violet Grigoryan) - 309 votes
Short story. «Dream of the football ball» (Tatev Derzyan) - 1506 votes
Fairy tale. «Inhabitants of Ankimur» (Armine Abrahamyan)
Screenplay. « Charents» (Vahram Martirosyan)
All winning works from each category will be published as a separate
book, printed by quantity of 500.
During the awards ceremony Bruno Duthoit, Orange Armenia CEO
congratulated the winners and noted: «We followed with great interest
discussions that were developing in social networks and other
platforms. First of all it reflects the fact that the project is
interesting and relevant. As we have said previously, Orange Book
Prize is rather reader's prize than a literary one. During this period
we did everything possible to stimulate reading through public
readings and discussions. Readers made their choice and we are happy
to support publishing the works they selected».
As a reminder, the contest was open to Armenian residents writing in
Armenian and having presented a literary work never published in the
past. A total of 130 literary works have participated.
In the result of the first stage Jury members should choose maximum
four works in each category that have been presented to public vote in
the second stage.
Per each category - fairy tale and screenplay/play only one creative
work has been chosen by the Jury, which are already considered to be
the winner and will be published. Winners of essays, novels and short
stories have been selected by on-line voting on Orange website:
www.orangearmenia.am/book-prize where visitors have voted for their
preferred works through Facebook by clicking the «like» button.
The objective of the contest is to boost interest towards reading,
discover Armenain litterarary works through the daily evolving
electronic media, spread them among large group of readers. With this
initiative Orange intends to join Yerevan in celebrating book and
reading, in 2012, when Yerevan will be world book capital. Orange Book
Prize will be organized and implemented in cooperation with Armenian
Book Center NGO.
For more information: http://orangearmenia.am/book-prize/
(Noyan Tapan - 12.11.2011)
Yesterday evening the Awards ceremony of Orange Book Prize 2011 was
held and the winners names were announced.
Novel. «Dog constellation» (Narine Kroyan) - 924 votes
Essay. «Bridge to Tanya: the extraordinary poet and the woman»,
(Violet Grigoryan) - 309 votes
Short story. «Dream of the football ball» (Tatev Derzyan) - 1506 votes
Fairy tale. «Inhabitants of Ankimur» (Armine Abrahamyan)
Screenplay. « Charents» (Vahram Martirosyan)
All winning works from each category will be published as a separate
book, printed by quantity of 500.
During the awards ceremony Bruno Duthoit, Orange Armenia CEO
congratulated the winners and noted: «We followed with great interest
discussions that were developing in social networks and other
platforms. First of all it reflects the fact that the project is
interesting and relevant. As we have said previously, Orange Book
Prize is rather reader's prize than a literary one. During this period
we did everything possible to stimulate reading through public
readings and discussions. Readers made their choice and we are happy
to support publishing the works they selected».
As a reminder, the contest was open to Armenian residents writing in
Armenian and having presented a literary work never published in the
past. A total of 130 literary works have participated.
In the result of the first stage Jury members should choose maximum
four works in each category that have been presented to public vote in
the second stage.
Per each category - fairy tale and screenplay/play only one creative
work has been chosen by the Jury, which are already considered to be
the winner and will be published. Winners of essays, novels and short
stories have been selected by on-line voting on Orange website:
www.orangearmenia.am/book-prize where visitors have voted for their
preferred works through Facebook by clicking the «like» button.
The objective of the contest is to boost interest towards reading,
discover Armenain litterarary works through the daily evolving
electronic media, spread them among large group of readers. With this
initiative Orange intends to join Yerevan in celebrating book and
reading, in 2012, when Yerevan will be world book capital. Orange Book
Prize will be organized and implemented in cooperation with Armenian
Book Center NGO.
For more information: http://orangearmenia.am/book-prize/