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    ORANGE BOOK PRIZE SECOND STAGE LAUNCHED

    AZG DAILY
    19-10-2011

    The second stage of the Orange Book Prize 2011 - the public voting
    - was launched on October 15. Total of 130 works were received by
    Orange during the first stage. As results of the first stage, during
    which the Jury had to choose maximum four works in each category,
    the following works have been selected.

    Novel. Â"Change of featherÂ" (Hrach Beglaryan) O~G Â"Dog
    constellationÂ" (Narine Kroyan)

    Fairy tale. Â"Inhabitants of AnkimurÂ" (Armine Abrahamyan)

    Essay. Â"The city Â" (Vardan Fereshetyan), Â"Bridge to Tanya: the
    extraordinary poet and the womanÂ", (Violet Grigoryan), Â"Insomnia in
    ParisÂ" (Vahram Martirosyan) and Â"The time to jump out of the wagonÂ"
    (Armen Shekoyan)

    Short story. Â"Few hours before death penaltyÂ" (Paruyr Santrosyan),
    Â"Dream of the football ballÂ" (Tatev Derzyan), Â"MatryoshkaÂ"
    (Armen Ohanyan), Â"96Â" (Marine Kocharyan)

    Screenplay. Â" CharentsÂ" (Vahram Martirosyan)

    On the proposal of the Jury essays and short stories have been divided
    into two categories. On the opposite, per each category - fairy tale
    and screenplay/play only one creative work has been chosen, which in
    its turn is considered to be the winner and will be published.

    Visitors can find extracts of these works on Orange website.

    Winners in novel, essay and short story nominations will be selected
    through online public voting. Bruno Duthoit, Orange Armenia CEO,
    said: Â"We congratulate all those who have merited Jury's estimation
    and thank all 130 participants. Starting from now a very interesting
    period begins, when all those who like reading will be able to read,
    share their opinion and choose which one will be published. This is
    an exceptional moment as generally the wide public discovers literary
    works after they become books.

    The differentiating point of Orange Book Prize is that it is rather
    reader's prize than a literary one. We hope that with public readings,
    discussions and meetings with the authors we will involve wide circles
    of readers and will stimulate interest towards reading in general.

    It's important, because next year Yerevan will become the world
    book capitalÂ".

    Starting from October 15 and until November 7th all works being
    selected in the first tour will be available on Orange official
    webpage: www.orangearmenia.am/book-prize. On the same page visitors can
    vote for the work they liked, by identifying themselves via Facebook
    social network and clicking the Â"likeÂ" button.

    All winning works from each category will be published as a separate
    book, printed by quantity of 500. The winners of the contest will be
    known during the awards ceremony held on November 11th.

    As a reminder, four categories of the contest - short story and
    essay, novel, fairy tale, screenplay 'play, were open to Armenian
    residents writing in Armenian and having presented a literary work
    never published in the past.

    The objective of the contest is to discover Armenian literary works
    through the daily evolving electronic media, spread them among
    large group of readers and boost interest towards reading. 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.

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