IRANIAN ARMENIAN AWARDED MEDAL

Yerkir.am
May 26, 2006

Theater holiday in Iran is marked from April 20 to May 6. This year,
the Theater House honored four people, three of them are renowned
Iranian playwrights.

The fourth one was famous Iranian Armenian translator and director
Andranik Khachumian. He was awarded a medal. Behzad Farahani,
a renowned Iranian actor and director, called Khechumian a bridge
between two neighboring and friendly nations.

Khechumian is well-known in Armenia, too. He has helped to organize
trips of Armenian troupes to perform in Iran. In the Armmono Festival
in Yerevan, Khechumian has stage two of his plays.

Khechumian has also translated dozens of plays from Armenian into
Farsi.

Most of them have already been published, some have been stages.

In 2004, Khechumian was awarded the Artavazd prize of the Armenian
Theater Figures.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress