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Awakening: The First English Translation of Malkhas's Classic Novel
''Zartonk'' is Published
March 21, 2015
Sardarabad bookstore (Glendale) and Sosé and Allen's Legacy Foundation
are excited to present the first English-language translation of
Malkhas's classic four-part work, Zartonk (Awakening), an Armenian
novel published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1933. Translated by Simon
Beugekian,Awakening is a project over three years in the making. With
your help, we hope to bring it to its finish line.
The novel tells a fascinating story of collective revival and captures
the struggles and triumphs of Armenians living across three empires.
At the turn of the twentieth century, as the map of the world was
redrawn and the Ottoman Empire crumbled, Armenians committed
themselves to a struggle toward self-determination and to rousing
their compatriots from their centuries-long slumber of servitude.
Awakening tells the tale of a cast of men and women, who both shaped
and weathered the events that would redefine an entire people. The
story, which spans two decades, is a fictional narrative written by a
man who was an activist and an organizer in the Armenian revolutionary
movement. As such, Awakening is a historical novel deeply rooted in
actual events, and offers a fresh, critical, and intimate glance into
the heart of the great changes that swept the world, including
Armenia, a hundred years ago, and that still define our world today.
Following its initial publication in 1933, Zartonk was reproduced in
serial form and reprinted in various diaspora communities. Over the
course of its many publication runs, Zartonk became a household staple
and an emblematic piece of popular literature for generations of
Armenians growing up in diasporic communities. The novel's
action-filled, page-turner quality, its central romantic love story,
and its vivid descriptions of Armenian life in the villages of the
Editorial Director: Dr. Talar Chahinian teaches in the Department of
Comparative World Literature at California State University, Long
Beach. She is also the assistant editor of theArmenian Review.
Translator: Simon Beugekian is a translator now living in Los Angeles.
He began his career in translation while working for the Boston-based
Armenian Weekly. His most recent translation project, Karnig Panian's
memoir Goodbye, Antoura, will be published by Stanford University
Press in 2015.
Creative Director: Sako Shahinian is an LA based designer who is
currently the creative director of TICLA. He also is involved with
many passion projects.
Editor: Dr. Carole Viers-Andronico lives and works in Paris, where she
directs the academic programs at the University of California's Paris
Study Center and teaches courses in language, literature, and film.
She is also a literary translator.
Publishing: Varouj Ourfalian is the Director of Sales and Programming
at Sardarabad bookstore in Glendale, California. Founded by the
Armenian Youth Federation in 1984, Sardarabad offers a wide collection
of books that explore topics related to Armenians.
Project Coordinator: Vaché Thomassian is the Director of Sosé &
Allen's Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to continuing the
works and vision of his sister and brother-in-law in Armenia and the
Diaspora.
http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/64242
''Zartonk'' is Published
March 21, 2015
Sardarabad bookstore (Glendale) and Sosé and Allen's Legacy Foundation
are excited to present the first English-language translation of
Malkhas's classic four-part work, Zartonk (Awakening), an Armenian
novel published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1933. Translated by Simon
Beugekian,Awakening is a project over three years in the making. With
your help, we hope to bring it to its finish line.
The novel tells a fascinating story of collective revival and captures
the struggles and triumphs of Armenians living across three empires.
At the turn of the twentieth century, as the map of the world was
redrawn and the Ottoman Empire crumbled, Armenians committed
themselves to a struggle toward self-determination and to rousing
their compatriots from their centuries-long slumber of servitude.
Awakening tells the tale of a cast of men and women, who both shaped
and weathered the events that would redefine an entire people. The
story, which spans two decades, is a fictional narrative written by a
man who was an activist and an organizer in the Armenian revolutionary
movement. As such, Awakening is a historical novel deeply rooted in
actual events, and offers a fresh, critical, and intimate glance into
the heart of the great changes that swept the world, including
Armenia, a hundred years ago, and that still define our world today.
Following its initial publication in 1933, Zartonk was reproduced in
serial form and reprinted in various diaspora communities. Over the
course of its many publication runs, Zartonk became a household staple
and an emblematic piece of popular literature for generations of
Armenians growing up in diasporic communities. The novel's
action-filled, page-turner quality, its central romantic love story,
and its vivid descriptions of Armenian life in the villages of the
Editorial Director: Dr. Talar Chahinian teaches in the Department of
Comparative World Literature at California State University, Long
Beach. She is also the assistant editor of theArmenian Review.
Translator: Simon Beugekian is a translator now living in Los Angeles.
He began his career in translation while working for the Boston-based
Armenian Weekly. His most recent translation project, Karnig Panian's
memoir Goodbye, Antoura, will be published by Stanford University
Press in 2015.
Creative Director: Sako Shahinian is an LA based designer who is
currently the creative director of TICLA. He also is involved with
many passion projects.
Editor: Dr. Carole Viers-Andronico lives and works in Paris, where she
directs the academic programs at the University of California's Paris
Study Center and teaches courses in language, literature, and film.
She is also a literary translator.
Publishing: Varouj Ourfalian is the Director of Sales and Programming
at Sardarabad bookstore in Glendale, California. Founded by the
Armenian Youth Federation in 1984, Sardarabad offers a wide collection
of books that explore topics related to Armenians.
Project Coordinator: Vaché Thomassian is the Director of Sosé &
Allen's Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to continuing the
works and vision of his sister and brother-in-law in Armenia and the
Diaspora.
http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/64242