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HAMAZKAYIN ANNOUNCES WINNER OF TOLOLYAN PRIZE IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
http://asbarez.com/110381/hamazkayin-announces-winner-of-tololyan-prize-in-contemporary-literature/
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Christopher Atamian is the winner of the Minas and Kohar Tololyan
Prize in Contemporary Literature
WATERTOWN-The Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society
of Eastern United States is pleased to announce the winner of the
inaugural Minas and Kohar Tololyan Prize in Contemporary Literature.
Christopher Atamian was chosen as the winner for his translation of
Nigoghos Sarafian's The Bois de Vincennes.
Christopher Atamian is a translator, writer, and director. He
produced the OBIE Award-winning play Trouble in Paradise in 2006 and
was included as an invited artist to the 2009 Venice Biennale for his
video Desire. His short films and videos have screened throughout the
world and he publishes regularly in such publications as The Huffington
Post and The New York Times and was for several years the dance critic
for the now-defunct New York Press. He has written one novel, Speaking
French, and is at work on several commercial musicals and film scripts.
In his activities as a translator, Atamian has translated six
books from French and Western Armenian into English, including
Nigoghos Sarafian's The Bois de Vincennes. Among the other books he
has translated, three have been in Armenian studies for the Middle
Eastern Studies Department at Columbia University: Krikor Beledian's
Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France, and two books by
Marc Nichanian: Literature and Catastrophe and The Armenian Language
Throughout History. He also translated Philippe Delma's The Rosy Future
of War (The Free Press) and is currently at work on Denis Donikian's
Vidures/Offal, an award-winning novel published on Actes Sud.
Mr. Atamian has worked in senior positions for leading media companies
including ABC, Ogilvy Interactive and JP Morgan's marketing division.
He received his BA from Harvard University, his MBA from Columbia
Business School and is also an alumnus of USC Film School. He has
been a Fulbright, Bronfman and Gulbenkian Scholar. Atamian has been
active in the Armenian community since he was a teenager and has
served on the Board of the Columbia Center for Armenian Studies and
as Executive Director of the Armenia Fund USA. He was the elected
President two years running of AGLA NY and currently sits on this
organization's Board of Trustees.
Named after one of the major Armenian literary critics of the second
half of the Twentieth century and his wife, a devoted teacher of
that literature for decades, the annually awarded prize recognizes
the work produced by talented writers working in North America. The
prize is intended to encourage new work in all the major genres
of literary production, as they are currently understood in North
America, including poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, travel writing and
other forms of creative non-fiction, as well as translation. Works
in Armenian, English, French and Spanish are considered, as long as
the authors are of Armenian ancestry, and/or the work has an Armenian
theme or revolves around an Armenian topic.
The primary purpose of the Prize is to encourage and offer recognition
through the award and through the ensuing publicity those who wish
to write about Armenian themes and topics. There is also a financial
award of $2,500 associated with the prize, made possible through
the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Vergine Misserlian of San
Francisco, CA.
The jury judging all submissions consists of Dr. Sima Aprahamian
(Montreal), Dr. Vartan Matiossian (New York/New Jersey), Gourgen
Arzoumanian (California), Yervant Kotchounian (California) and Prof.
Khachig Tololyan (Connecticut).
The Prize was announced at Hamazkayin's Annual Pan Gathering on May 4,
in Boston.
The Eastern USA region of Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural
Society, a 501 c (3) not for profit organization, constitutes one of
the branches of the worldwide Hamazkayin family, founded in 1928. The
Eastern United States region, headquartered in Massachusetts, consists
of eight chapters in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New Jersey, New York,
Philadelphia, Providence and Washington, DC.
Hamazkayin aims to empower our chapters and membership to nurture and
promote Armenian arts and culture. Given our millennia long history,
we are cognizant of the dynamic nature of the concept of identity. To
that end, we strive to maintain our cultural identity and heritage
and are committed to grow and further the contribution of the Armenian
culture to the complex tapestry of world civilizations.
http://asbarez.com/110381/hamazkayin-announces-winner-of-tololyan-prize-in-contemporary-literature/
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Christopher Atamian is the winner of the Minas and Kohar Tololyan
Prize in Contemporary Literature
WATERTOWN-The Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society
of Eastern United States is pleased to announce the winner of the
inaugural Minas and Kohar Tololyan Prize in Contemporary Literature.
Christopher Atamian was chosen as the winner for his translation of
Nigoghos Sarafian's The Bois de Vincennes.
Christopher Atamian is a translator, writer, and director. He
produced the OBIE Award-winning play Trouble in Paradise in 2006 and
was included as an invited artist to the 2009 Venice Biennale for his
video Desire. His short films and videos have screened throughout the
world and he publishes regularly in such publications as The Huffington
Post and The New York Times and was for several years the dance critic
for the now-defunct New York Press. He has written one novel, Speaking
French, and is at work on several commercial musicals and film scripts.
In his activities as a translator, Atamian has translated six
books from French and Western Armenian into English, including
Nigoghos Sarafian's The Bois de Vincennes. Among the other books he
has translated, three have been in Armenian studies for the Middle
Eastern Studies Department at Columbia University: Krikor Beledian's
Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France, and two books by
Marc Nichanian: Literature and Catastrophe and The Armenian Language
Throughout History. He also translated Philippe Delma's The Rosy Future
of War (The Free Press) and is currently at work on Denis Donikian's
Vidures/Offal, an award-winning novel published on Actes Sud.
Mr. Atamian has worked in senior positions for leading media companies
including ABC, Ogilvy Interactive and JP Morgan's marketing division.
He received his BA from Harvard University, his MBA from Columbia
Business School and is also an alumnus of USC Film School. He has
been a Fulbright, Bronfman and Gulbenkian Scholar. Atamian has been
active in the Armenian community since he was a teenager and has
served on the Board of the Columbia Center for Armenian Studies and
as Executive Director of the Armenia Fund USA. He was the elected
President two years running of AGLA NY and currently sits on this
organization's Board of Trustees.
Named after one of the major Armenian literary critics of the second
half of the Twentieth century and his wife, a devoted teacher of
that literature for decades, the annually awarded prize recognizes
the work produced by talented writers working in North America. The
prize is intended to encourage new work in all the major genres
of literary production, as they are currently understood in North
America, including poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, travel writing and
other forms of creative non-fiction, as well as translation. Works
in Armenian, English, French and Spanish are considered, as long as
the authors are of Armenian ancestry, and/or the work has an Armenian
theme or revolves around an Armenian topic.
The primary purpose of the Prize is to encourage and offer recognition
through the award and through the ensuing publicity those who wish
to write about Armenian themes and topics. There is also a financial
award of $2,500 associated with the prize, made possible through
the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Vergine Misserlian of San
Francisco, CA.
The jury judging all submissions consists of Dr. Sima Aprahamian
(Montreal), Dr. Vartan Matiossian (New York/New Jersey), Gourgen
Arzoumanian (California), Yervant Kotchounian (California) and Prof.
Khachig Tololyan (Connecticut).
The Prize was announced at Hamazkayin's Annual Pan Gathering on May 4,
in Boston.
The Eastern USA region of Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural
Society, a 501 c (3) not for profit organization, constitutes one of
the branches of the worldwide Hamazkayin family, founded in 1928. The
Eastern United States region, headquartered in Massachusetts, consists
of eight chapters in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New Jersey, New York,
Philadelphia, Providence and Washington, DC.
Hamazkayin aims to empower our chapters and membership to nurture and
promote Armenian arts and culture. Given our millennia long history,
we are cognizant of the dynamic nature of the concept of identity. To
that end, we strive to maintain our cultural identity and heritage
and are committed to grow and further the contribution of the Armenian
culture to the complex tapestry of world civilizations.