GURGEN MAARI WIDOW’S BOOK PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH

PanARMENIAN.Net
06.03.2009 19:08 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A book presentation"My Odysseus" written in English
by Antonina Mahari will be held March 22 in an Armenian "St.David"
church, Florida. The book was written in the 70’s of the previous
century, but published much later."In Soviet times I was afraid to
publish the book, and I only managed to do it in 2003 in honour of
Gourgen Mahari’s 100 anniversary, with the help offered by the head
of Writers’ Union, Levon Ananyan," said the writer during the talk
with the PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent.

In 1945 the 22- year old Antonina Povelaititi, a student of
Vilnius University, was accused for participating in the clandestine
organization fighting for "Independent Lithuania" and was expelled to
the Siberia camps for five years. There she met her future husband,
a political prisoner, Gourgen Mahari.