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Prominent Armenian writer Kostan Zarian’s archive donated to Matenadaran

Panorama, Armenia
Culture 18:01 27/07/2019 Armenia

Kostan Zarian's grandchildren have donated the archive of the outstanding Soviet Armenian writer, poet, novelist, and art historian to Mashtots Matenadaran.

The donation also includes published and unpublished, handwritten and typewritten works in different languages by Kostan’s son, Architect Armen Zarian, concerning architecture, urban development and art, Matenadaran said in a Facebook post.

The goal of the donation is to preserve, coordinate, archive, study, publish, publicize and digitize Kostan Zarian's literary and art history works, letters, notes, and biographical material, all of which are of great value.

The archive has not been completed yet. In the coming months, Kostan Zarian archives in other countries, too, will be brought to Armenia, and the preservation of this material will also be entrusted to Mashtots Matenadaran.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS