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Glendale Public Library
222 East Harvard Street
Glendale CA 91205
Tel: 818-548-2030
Web: http://www.glendalepubliclibrary.org/
http://www.glendale.ci.ca.us/
FB: www.facebook.com/GlendalePL
Central Library to Host Writer/Activist Nancy Kricorian
GLENDALE, CA on Wednesday March 20, 2013, writer/activist Nancy
Kricorian will present her newly published book, All the Light there
Was, followed by a discussion. The program will began at 7pm at the
Glendale Central Library Auditorium, 222 East Harvard Street in
Glendale. The presentation is in English. Admission is free; seating is
limited. Library visitors receive 3 hours FREE parking across the street
at The Market Place parking structure with validation at the Loan Desk.
All the Light there Was, was Inspired by the life of resistance leader
and Armenian Genocide survivor Missak Manouchian. Kricorian delved into
the Armenian experience in Paris during World War II, interviewing
survivors, including the last living member of Manouchian's team.
Kricorian weaves her exhaustive historical research, her own Armenian
heritage and her lifelong commitment to human rights causes into this
beautiful and haunting tale. The story explores the Armenian immigrant
experience through the eyes of a precocious young heroine,
fourteen-year-old Maral lives with her family in Paris, like many others
who survived the Armenian genocide in their homeland at the start of the
Nazi occupation,
Nancy Kricorian, author of the novels Zabelle and Dreams of Bread and
Fire, is a widely published essayist and activist. After graduating from
Dartmouth, Nancy studied and worked in Paris before earning an MFA in
writing at Columbia University. As an activist, she is involved with
CODEPINK: Women for Peace and the Occupy Wall Street Global Justice
Working Group. She lives in New York City.
"In order to create the characters in my novels, I collect stories. It's
like being a collage artist, or maybe more like a bird building a nest
with twigs, grasses, old feathers, bits of twine and other scraps. I
find these stories in history books, memoirs, letters and documentary
films. For all three of my novels so far, I have had the good fortune of
talking with people who lived through the events that I am dramatizing
in my fiction."
The program is sponsored by the Library, Arts & Culture Department,
Abril Books and the Friends of the Glendale Library.
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CONTACT: Elizabeth Grigorian, Glendale Library, Arts & Culture (818)
548-3288
Glendale Public Library
222 East Harvard Street
Glendale CA 91205
Tel: 818-548-2030
Web: http://www.glendalepubliclibrary.org/
http://www.glendale.ci.ca.us/
FB: www.facebook.com/GlendalePL
Central Library to Host Writer/Activist Nancy Kricorian
GLENDALE, CA on Wednesday March 20, 2013, writer/activist Nancy
Kricorian will present her newly published book, All the Light there
Was, followed by a discussion. The program will began at 7pm at the
Glendale Central Library Auditorium, 222 East Harvard Street in
Glendale. The presentation is in English. Admission is free; seating is
limited. Library visitors receive 3 hours FREE parking across the street
at The Market Place parking structure with validation at the Loan Desk.
All the Light there Was, was Inspired by the life of resistance leader
and Armenian Genocide survivor Missak Manouchian. Kricorian delved into
the Armenian experience in Paris during World War II, interviewing
survivors, including the last living member of Manouchian's team.
Kricorian weaves her exhaustive historical research, her own Armenian
heritage and her lifelong commitment to human rights causes into this
beautiful and haunting tale. The story explores the Armenian immigrant
experience through the eyes of a precocious young heroine,
fourteen-year-old Maral lives with her family in Paris, like many others
who survived the Armenian genocide in their homeland at the start of the
Nazi occupation,
Nancy Kricorian, author of the novels Zabelle and Dreams of Bread and
Fire, is a widely published essayist and activist. After graduating from
Dartmouth, Nancy studied and worked in Paris before earning an MFA in
writing at Columbia University. As an activist, she is involved with
CODEPINK: Women for Peace and the Occupy Wall Street Global Justice
Working Group. She lives in New York City.
"In order to create the characters in my novels, I collect stories. It's
like being a collage artist, or maybe more like a bird building a nest
with twigs, grasses, old feathers, bits of twine and other scraps. I
find these stories in history books, memoirs, letters and documentary
films. For all three of my novels so far, I have had the good fortune of
talking with people who lived through the events that I am dramatizing
in my fiction."
The program is sponsored by the Library, Arts & Culture Department,
Abril Books and the Friends of the Glendale Library.
###
CONTACT: Elizabeth Grigorian, Glendale Library, Arts & Culture (818)
548-3288