LITERARY SOCIETY MARKS 110th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF YEGHISHE CHARENTS

Noyan Tapan
Mar 13 2007

YEREVAN, MARCH 13, NOYAN TAPAN. 110th birth anniversary of great poet
Yeghishe Charents was marked on March 13. Like every year this year
also representatives of intelligentsia, students and schoolchildren
visited the great poet’s memorial complex and paid tribute of
respect to the poet’s memory. Charents readings were held near the
memorial. Lilit Hakobian, Director of Charents’ House-Museum, stated
that an exhibition under the title "The People to Charents" will open
at the museum on the occasion of poet’s 110th birth anniversary.

During the whole year many events will be organized in Armenia and
Artsakh and on the initiative of Union of Writers of Russia the
great poet’s jubilee will be also solemnly marked in Russia. On the
occasion of the jubilee, poet’s Selected Poetry will be published
soon on the initiative of the Hayagitak publishing-house and poet’s
daughter, Anahit Charents. The Selected Poetry will also include poet’s
unpublished works. L. Hakobian also said that they had applied to RA
government with the suggestion of marking Charents’ jubilee solemnly,
but they refused motivating by the fact that 110th anniversary is
not considered a jubilee. "If in Ukraine every year they consider
Shevchenko’s birthday as a jubilee, why can’t we glorify our genius
properly?," L. Hakobian said. In the words of Levon Ananian, Chairman
of Union of Writers of Armenia, Charents was able to unite the past,
present and future of Armenian people in his creation. "The 110th
birth anniversary and 70th anniversary of tragic death of Charents is
marked this year. Declaring 2007 as Year of Charents, we should do our
best to return the literary values to the youth, as well as to present
the great poet’s poetry in a new way to the international community,"
L. Ananian said. In the words of Anahit Charents, though poet’s life
lasted only 40 years, it was not a usual life, but "stormy 40 years of
life" of the great poet, which ended on the half-way of his creative
activity. "Charents’ life became a selfless devotion to his people,
his homeland. The Armenian people adored the poet and the poet adored
the people. Charents believed in the future of his people. The very
things make Charents stay live, thanks to them he will accompany the
generations," the poet’s daughter said.