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LIBRARY TO BE NAMED AFTER WILLIAM SAROYAN IN TURKEY
17:24, 12 February, 2015
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, ARMENPRESS. A library in Bitlis will be named
after the prominent Armenian-American author William Saroyan.
Journalist and writer Ahmet Tuglar is the author of the project. As
reports "Armenpress", the Istanbul-based Armenian periodical Agos
stated about this.
Among other things, Tuglar noted that the idea of opening a library
first came to his mind, when a decision was made in December of
the previous year to name one of the streets in Bitlis after the
Armenian-American author.
William Saroyan was an American - Armenian author. The setting of many
of his stories and plays was Fresno, California (sometimes under a
fictional name), the center of Armenian-American life in California
and where he grew up.
Saroyan was born in Fresno, California to Armenian immigrants from
Bitlis, Turkey. At the age of three, after his father's death, Saroyan
was placed in the orphanage in Oakland, California, together with his
brother and sister, an experience he later described in his writing.
Five years later, the family reunited in Fresno, where his mother,
Takoohi, secured work at a cannery. He continued his education on
his own, supporting himself by taking odd jobs, such as working as
an office manager for the San Francisco Telegraph Company.
Saroyan decided to become a writer after his mother showed him some
of his father's writings. A few of his early short articles were
published in Overland Monthly. His first stories appeared in the
1930s. Among these was "The Broken Wheel", written under the name
Sirak Goryan and published in the Armenian journal Hairenik in 1933.
Many of Saroyan's stories were based on his childhood experiences
among the Armenian-American fruit growers of the San Joaquin Valley,
or dealt with the rootlessness of the immigrant. The short story
collection My Name is Aram (1940), an international bestseller, was
about a young boy and the colorful characters of his immigrant family.
It has been translated into many languages.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/793860/library-to-be-named-after-william-saroyan-in-turkey.html
17:24, 12 February, 2015
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, ARMENPRESS. A library in Bitlis will be named
after the prominent Armenian-American author William Saroyan.
Journalist and writer Ahmet Tuglar is the author of the project. As
reports "Armenpress", the Istanbul-based Armenian periodical Agos
stated about this.
Among other things, Tuglar noted that the idea of opening a library
first came to his mind, when a decision was made in December of
the previous year to name one of the streets in Bitlis after the
Armenian-American author.
William Saroyan was an American - Armenian author. The setting of many
of his stories and plays was Fresno, California (sometimes under a
fictional name), the center of Armenian-American life in California
and where he grew up.
Saroyan was born in Fresno, California to Armenian immigrants from
Bitlis, Turkey. At the age of three, after his father's death, Saroyan
was placed in the orphanage in Oakland, California, together with his
brother and sister, an experience he later described in his writing.
Five years later, the family reunited in Fresno, where his mother,
Takoohi, secured work at a cannery. He continued his education on
his own, supporting himself by taking odd jobs, such as working as
an office manager for the San Francisco Telegraph Company.
Saroyan decided to become a writer after his mother showed him some
of his father's writings. A few of his early short articles were
published in Overland Monthly. His first stories appeared in the
1930s. Among these was "The Broken Wheel", written under the name
Sirak Goryan and published in the Armenian journal Hairenik in 1933.
Many of Saroyan's stories were based on his childhood experiences
among the Armenian-American fruit growers of the San Joaquin Valley,
or dealt with the rootlessness of the immigrant. The short story
collection My Name is Aram (1940), an international bestseller, was
about a young boy and the colorful characters of his immigrant family.
It has been translated into many languages.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/793860/library-to-be-named-after-william-saroyan-in-turkey.html