VERZHINE SVAZLIAN AND EDGAR HILSENRATH RECEIVE RA PRESIDENT’S PRIZE
FOR CONSIDERABLE CONTRIBUTION TO RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
YEREVAN, APRIL 21, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On April 15, RA
President Robert Kocharian signed a decree on giving prizes to persons
who have made a considerable contribution to the issue of recognition
of the Armenian Genocide in 2005. As Noyan Tapan was informed from RA
President’s Press Service, Verzhine Svazlian was given President’s
prize for her monograph “The Armenian Genocide and the Historical
Memory of the People” and Edgar Hilsenrath (Germany) for his novel
“The Tale of the Last Thought.”