NUMBER OF YOUNG WRITERS HAS INCREASED IN RECENT YEARS IN ARMENIA, LEVON ANANIAN SAYS

Noyan Tapan
Jul 10, 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the
Union of Writers of Armenia, at the July 10 meeting with journalists,
said that an indefinite situation was created in the literary family
in the 1990-s and the issue of change of generations was endangered,
while the situation has changed abruptly and the number of young
writers has increased in the recent years.

In his words, today not only young writers have joined the Union
of Writers of Armenia, but also the Serund electronic newspaper,
the Tsolker youth magazine have been created, and more than twenty
books of young creators have been published by the Mutk series
of books. L. Ananian also said that works of young Diasporan
writers should be also published by the Mutk series of books,
for these writers’ to become known both in the Diaspora and in the
homeland. "That is, today the youth has all possibilites for creating
and being published," the Chairman of the Union said.

Touching upon the Union’s plans, L. Ananian said that a week of
Russian language, a conference of Armenian writers writing in foreign
languages, as well as days of Georgian poetry will be held in autumn
in Armenia and in Artsakh. It was also mentioned that the preparation
for the All Armenian Writers’ Conference and International Festival
of Poetry to be held next year in Armenia has already started.