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80TH ANNIVERSARY OF VARDGES PETROSYAN TO BE CELEBRATED IN YEREVAN
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18:33, 17 June, 2013
YEREVAN, JUNE 17, ARMENPRESS: The 80th anniversary of Armenian writer,
playwright and publicist Vardges Petrosyan will be celebrated in
Yerevan.
"Armenpress" reports that the ceremony will take place on June 18 in
the National academic theatre after Gabriel Sundukyan.
The jubilee concert has been organized in sponsorship of Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Armenia.
Vardges Petrosyan was born in 1932 in Ashtarak in the Ararat Valley,
where he spent his childhood years, finished school and began writing
his first verses.
In 1954, he graduated from the Yerevan University and started writing
for several youth newspapers. As a newspaper correspondent he travelled
all over his native Armenia and throughout the entire Soviet Union-from
'Yakutia in Eastern Siberia to Karelia in the northwest of the country.
His first collection of poems, "The Ballad of Men", came out in 1958,
to be followed by collections of essays, feature stories and tales.
Vardges Petrosyan is best known for his novels "The Last Teacher",
"Letters from the Small Stations of Childhood", "The Ani Drugstore",
"The Armenian Sketches" and also for his play "The Heavy Weight of
Hippocrates' Hat". Petrosyan is a winner of the Armenian Republic's
State Prize and Komsomol Prize.
In 1966, he became the editor-in-chief of an Armenian youth monthly
"Garun" (Spring) where he worked till 1975 when he was elected the
First Secretary of the Board of Writers' Union of Armenia.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/722912/80th-anniversary-of-vardges-petrosyan-to-be-celebrated-in-yerevan.html
18:33, 17 June, 2013
YEREVAN, JUNE 17, ARMENPRESS: The 80th anniversary of Armenian writer,
playwright and publicist Vardges Petrosyan will be celebrated in
Yerevan.
"Armenpress" reports that the ceremony will take place on June 18 in
the National academic theatre after Gabriel Sundukyan.
The jubilee concert has been organized in sponsorship of Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Armenia.
Vardges Petrosyan was born in 1932 in Ashtarak in the Ararat Valley,
where he spent his childhood years, finished school and began writing
his first verses.
In 1954, he graduated from the Yerevan University and started writing
for several youth newspapers. As a newspaper correspondent he travelled
all over his native Armenia and throughout the entire Soviet Union-from
'Yakutia in Eastern Siberia to Karelia in the northwest of the country.
His first collection of poems, "The Ballad of Men", came out in 1958,
to be followed by collections of essays, feature stories and tales.
Vardges Petrosyan is best known for his novels "The Last Teacher",
"Letters from the Small Stations of Childhood", "The Ani Drugstore",
"The Armenian Sketches" and also for his play "The Heavy Weight of
Hippocrates' Hat". Petrosyan is a winner of the Armenian Republic's
State Prize and Komsomol Prize.
In 1966, he became the editor-in-chief of an Armenian youth monthly
"Garun" (Spring) where he worked till 1975 when he was elected the
First Secretary of the Board of Writers' Union of Armenia.