VERJINE SVAZLYAN HONORED WITH GREATEST MINDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY ORDER

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.03.2009 18:11 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Doctor of Philology Vergine Svazlyan was awarded
with an honorary order of the American Biographical Institute,
"The greatest mind of 21st century" for her article about Armenia
featured in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife.

The article included information about the works of Movses Khorenatsi,
the Father of the Armenian Historiography, legends of Hayk and Bele,
Artashes and Satenik, historical facts about Tigran the Great, Saint
Gregory the Enlightener. The article couldn’t have been complete
without the mention of Sasuntsi David Epos. Besides the article
offered national stories, legends and proverbs dedicated to different
historical events in the lives of Armenians.

7 to 8 pages in the encyclopedia are usually dedicated to every
country in the world. The publishers were so interested by Vergine
Svazlyan’s work, that they offered her 16 pages for her article.

Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore & Folklife was published
in 2006 by Greenwood Publishing House and Edited by William
M. Clements. The 4-volume set seeks to "survey the world’s folklore
heritages in a way that emphasizes the international nature of
folklore in general while placing folklore within particular cultural
milieus." Nearly 40 signed essays cover background and research issues
and another 200 main entries – arranged geographically by continent and
region – cover the world. Each of the articles includes a bibliography
and the indexes are usual for cross-cultural research.