140 THOUSAND U.S. DOLLARS GATHERED AS A RESULT OF 2nd TELETHON HELD BY ALL-ARMENIAN LITERARY FUND

Noyan Tapan
Feb 06 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The All-Armenian Literary Fund for
the second time held a telethon on February 4 by the Public Television
during which about 140 thousand U.S. dollars were gathered. As
Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Armenia (WUA)
informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, in total, 500 donators both
from Armenia and Diaspora participated in the telethon.

In L.Ananian’s words, Chairman of the Union of Armenians of Russia
Ara Abrahamian (68 thousand dollars), businessman living in Ukraine
Nver Mnatsakanian (10 thousand dollars) are among the big donators. In
his words, Armenian businessmen almost did not donate big money this
year. The WUA Chairman also stated that gathering of money is still
in process.

In L.Ananian’s words, the fund’s resources will be spent on translation
of works of modern writers, development of the publishing sphere as
well as on assisting the literary press, improvement of the writers’
social state, completing the prize fund of the WUA.

To recap, 200 thousand dollars were gathered during the first telethon
held in 2003.