ORHAN PAMUK’S ‘SNOW’ TO BE HEARD IN ARMENIAN
By Anahit Hovsepian in Germany

AZG Armenian Daily
10/11/2006

On November 10, at 7.00 pm "Snow" novel of 2006 Nobel Prize winner
Orhan Pamuk will be declaimed in parts in 5 language at Lev Kopelev
forum in Cologne, Germany.

The international literary soiree, as the event is dubbed in the
invitation letters, will be accompanied by a performance (Grigor
Manukian) and a slideshow.

"Snow" is a wonderful novel, a travel into a village narrated
with great imagination. Parts of the novel will be read in German
by Albrecht Keezer (journalist), in Armenian by Hasmik Hakobian
(translator), in Turkish by Hyula Engin (translator), in Kurdish by
Adnan Dindar and in Russian by Harutyun Harutyunian. The town of Kars
depicted in the novel will be displayed in the slideshow.

The gathering will help give new push to the 54-year-old novelist’s
work that was translated into 34 languages.

The novel that deals with love and fanaticism, traditions and modern
trends place Pamuk among the greatest authors of our time, Kolner
Stadt Anzeiger magazine reports. The magazine intends to organize 4
more such events.