MORE THAN 90 DIASPORAN WRITERS INTEND TO PARTICIPATE IN THIRD ALL-ARMENIAN CONFERENCE OF WRITERS
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 15 2006
ANTILIAS, MARCH 15, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Preparatory
work for the third All-Armenian Conference of Writers to be held at
the Mayravank Complex of Antilias on April 6-9 is currently being
carried out in accordance with the schedule. More than 90 writers of
Armenian descend from Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Cyprus,
France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, the UK, Australia, Georgia,
the US and Canada have expressed their intention to participate
in the event. The Unions of Writers of Armenia and Artsakh will be
represented by 50 writers.
According to the press release of the commission on conference
preparation, which was provided to NT by the press service of the
Catholicosate of the Great Cilician House, the Armenian and Diasporan
Armenian writers – participants of the conference will arrive in
Lebanon on April 5. The official opening ceremony will take place on
April 6, while the closing ceremony – late April 10.
Catholicos of the Great Cilician House Aram I will attend the opening
and closing sittings of the event.
The Armenian and Diasporan writers and literary critics will make
reports on 6 themes during the conference entitled “The Armenian
Literature in the Face of Global Challenges”. The reports will be
followed by opinion exchanges and discussions.
The first two All-Armenian conferences of writers were held in 2002
and 2004 in Yerevan on the initiative of the Union of Writers of
Armenia. In response to the invitation-proposal of Catholicos of
the Great Cilician House Aram I to convene the third All-Armenian
Conference of Writers at the Mayravank Complex of Antilias (Lebanon),
the Board of the Union of Writers of Armenia made a decision to hold
the conference in the spring of 2006 at the Mayravank of Antilias
under the high patronage of Catholicos Aram I and with the necessary
financial and material resources. A steering committee was set up. It
is composed of Bishop Narek Alemezian, Pepo Simonian, Zhirayr Danelian,
Sargis Kirakosian and Aram Sepetjian.