Armenian Writers Association of California to hold New Year meeting on Jan. 19
08.01.2010 14:16 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Celebrating the New Year, there will be a special
literary meeting of the Armenian Writers Association of California,
sponsored by Glendale Public Library on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.

Special guests from Armenia, poets Natella Lalabekian and Artem
Harutyunian will be present and will read their recent works. Members
of AWAOC and lovers of literature are invited, attendance is open and
free.

Poet, translator, laureate of Armenia’s state award, Doctor of
Philology and member of Writers’ Union of Armenia, Artem Harutyunyan
was born in Stepanakert on September 19, 1945. He completed his PhD in
English Literature at Moscow Gorki Institute of International
Literature. He has lectured at the State University of Yerevan,
Moscow, the Sorbonne, Marseille (France), Durham (England), Cleveland,
Harvard and Los Angeles. He also served as NKR representative to
Washington in 1994-95.