NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS OF ARMENIA PARTICIPATES IN INTERNATIONAL FAIR-EXHIBITION OF BOOK IN SALONIKA

Noyan Tapan
May 30 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. The National Association of Publishers
of Armenia (NAP) participated on May 16-21 at the 4th International
Fair-Exhibition of Book being held in the city of Salonika, Greece. As
Vahan Khachatrian, the Chairman of the association informed the
Noyan Tapan correspondent, literary-fiction, popular scientific,
children’s and educational publishing product of about 200 titles of
50 Armenian publishing houses were presented in a separate pavilion
at the exhibition. In his words, books printed by the Edit-Print
publishing house are also presented in a separate pavilion. About
150 publishing houses from Greece as well as publishing houses of 30
European countries participated in the exhibition.

V. Khachatrian mentioned that the invitation to participate in the
exhibition was got from the Ministry of Culture of Greece and by the
Directorate of the International Fair-Exhibition of Salonika, and
representatives of the Armenian community of Greece, particularly,
Karapet and Anahit Galfayans assisted the Armenian publishers.

Armenian publishers met with representatives of the Armenian community
of Salonika and Athens, gave education books to local Armenian
seminaries and to the library built attached to the Armenian church
of Salonika. An agreement was reached with the Embassy of Armenia
to Greece that an exhibition of books published in Armenia will be
organized in Athens as well, starting from the next year.

The NAP Chairman also mentioned that Armenian publishers will this
year participate in exhibitions of book to be held in Moscow, Saint
Petersburg and Frankfurt as well. And on the initiative of the Ministry
of Culture and Youth Issues of Armenia, a seminar under the slogan
"Translation as Crossroads of Cultures" will be for the first time
organized in Yerevan in October, with participation of publishers
of the CIS countries. An exhibition of book will also be organized
within the framework of the seminar.