DELEGATION OF UNION OF WRITERS OF ARMENIA TO PARTICIPATE IN CULTURAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN ISPAHAN

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 20 2006

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. On November 20, a group of Armenian
writers headed by Chairman of the Union of Writers of Armenia, Levon
Ananian will leave for Iran on a seven-day visit within the framework
of the Glance at the Future Armenian-Iranian literary-cultural
cooperation program. As L.Ananian said at the press conference
convened at the Union of Writers of Armenia the same day, in 2004,
the Iranian writers for the first time visited Armenia and some days
later they parted from their Armenian partners "with registration of
many creative plans." Two years have passed and the Iranian government
invited Armenian writers and intellectuals to Ispahan on a reciprocal
visit, to take part in the conference under the title Literary Bridges.

L.Ananian said that the Armenian delegation is not leaving for Iran
empty-handed: 30 titles of books were translated from Persian into
Armenian in Armenia over the past 15 years. These books represent
almost all genres of 20th century’s and modern Iranian literature.

In the words of Reza Atoufi, Director of the Center for Iranian Culture
in Armenia, there are two reasons for holding the conference especially
in Ispahan: first, Yerevan and Ispahan are sister cities, and second,
Ispahan has been announced cultural capital of the Islamic world.