ARMENIAN BOOK QUALITY CORRESPONDS THE INTERNATIONAL CRITERION

Aysor
Aug 25 2009
Armenia

This year the 22 annual "International Book Fair" is held in Moscow on
September 2-7. Edward Militonyan, the head of the Publishing Agency
of RA Ministry of Culture, informed Aysor.am, that Armenia has been
officially taking part in the exhibition since 1998.

According to Edward Militonyan this year Armenia will present more
than 150 books (nearly 100 are published on a State order, the rest
are published by private publishing houses).

"Books published on a State order by more than 30 publishing houses
and also books published by other publishing houses are introduced in
the exhibition",-went into details E. Militonyan and added that books
printed by "Edit Print", "Antares", "Voske Yerevantsi", "Arevik",
"Tsitsernak", "Aghbyur ".

The head of the Publishing Agency explained that as the exhibition
is an international one, any country, any publishing house can take
part in it.

"They buy books on their funds and present them in our pavilions", –
declared E. Militonyan and added that the books on State order are
published during the past 2 years (translations, children books,
album literature).

Also posters devoted to the 500th anniversary of the Armenian printed
book will be introduced. The Armenian delegation also paid special
attention to NKR, also to the inclusion of works referring to the
Armenian genocide.

In the frames of the exhibition on September 4, the ceremony of
awarding the diplomas of CIS international book will take place. Two
Armenian books are honored the first class diploma in the nomination
"Art Book": a research-album by Van Khachatryan "Color in the
Armenian Architecture in the 14-19 centuries", and "Yerevan", by Gagik
Bagdasaryan, an album representing the past and present of Yerevan.

"The quality of the Armenian books corresponds to the international
criterion", – outlined E. Militonyan.

The Armenian delegation will participate in a series of activities,
held in the frames of the "International Book Fair": conferences,
professional business meeting with the representatives of foreign
publishing houses.