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VARUJAN VOSGANIAN AGAIN INTRODUCES IN NOBEL PRIZE OF LITERATURE
15:10, 28 January, 2014
BUCHAREST, JANUARY 28, ARMENPRESS. The Writers' Union of Romania
on January 27 decided to offer Varujan Vosganian's candidature in
2014 Literature Nobel Prize. Three other Romanian writers novelists
Nicolae Breban, Norman Manea, as well as poet Mircea Cărtărescu are
included in the list of the candidates.
"Armenpress" reports citing Romanian MEDIAFAX News Agency that the
Chairman of the Writers' Union of Romania Nicolae Manolescu informed
that "literary value of their works and translation into foreign
languages" served as a standard for introducing above mentioned four
writers in Nobel Prize.
Author of "Whispers" novel which was translated into many languages
and won international fame Varujan Vosganian was as well introduced
in Nobel Prize of Literature by three countries at the same time last
year - Romania, Armenia and Israel.
The Book of Whispers begins in a picturesque register, on a lane
of the Armenian quarter of Focșani in the 1950s, among the steam of
freshly roasted coffee and the scents of grandmother Armenuhi's larder,
among the old books and photographs of grandfather Garabet.
But the reader is not left to savour the intimacy of this hearth
and home and nor is he invited to chat with the merry folk who in
peacetime spin stories about Ara the Fair and Tigran the Great. Varujan
Vosganian's "old Armenians from childhood" have no delectable tales to
tell, but rather events that are thoroughly disturbing. In narrating
these events, they attempt to disburden themselves of a trauma -
their own and that of their forbears.
The history of the 1915 genocide against the Armenians, the history
of the interminable convoys of those banished into the Circles of
Death, into the Deir ez Zor Desert, the secret history of Armenian
freemasonry in Romania, of General Dro's army, the history of the
Armenians who followed the path of exile in the Stalinist period -
all these and many other biographically filtered histories are to be
found illustrated in the pages of this unsettling book.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/747806/varujan-vosganian-again-introduces-in-nobel-prize-of-literature.html
15:10, 28 January, 2014
BUCHAREST, JANUARY 28, ARMENPRESS. The Writers' Union of Romania
on January 27 decided to offer Varujan Vosganian's candidature in
2014 Literature Nobel Prize. Three other Romanian writers novelists
Nicolae Breban, Norman Manea, as well as poet Mircea Cărtărescu are
included in the list of the candidates.
"Armenpress" reports citing Romanian MEDIAFAX News Agency that the
Chairman of the Writers' Union of Romania Nicolae Manolescu informed
that "literary value of their works and translation into foreign
languages" served as a standard for introducing above mentioned four
writers in Nobel Prize.
Author of "Whispers" novel which was translated into many languages
and won international fame Varujan Vosganian was as well introduced
in Nobel Prize of Literature by three countries at the same time last
year - Romania, Armenia and Israel.
The Book of Whispers begins in a picturesque register, on a lane
of the Armenian quarter of Focșani in the 1950s, among the steam of
freshly roasted coffee and the scents of grandmother Armenuhi's larder,
among the old books and photographs of grandfather Garabet.
But the reader is not left to savour the intimacy of this hearth
and home and nor is he invited to chat with the merry folk who in
peacetime spin stories about Ara the Fair and Tigran the Great. Varujan
Vosganian's "old Armenians from childhood" have no delectable tales to
tell, but rather events that are thoroughly disturbing. In narrating
these events, they attempt to disburden themselves of a trauma -
their own and that of their forbears.
The history of the 1915 genocide against the Armenians, the history
of the interminable convoys of those banished into the Circles of
Death, into the Deir ez Zor Desert, the secret history of Armenian
freemasonry in Romania, of General Dro's army, the history of the
Armenians who followed the path of exile in the Stalinist period -
all these and many other biographically filtered histories are to be
found illustrated in the pages of this unsettling book.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/747806/varujan-vosganian-again-introduces-in-nobel-prize-of-literature.html