CONFERENCE TO WILLIAM SAROYAN’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY
Panorama.am
20:03 06/10/2008
On 6-10 October a conference devoted to 100th anniversary of William
Saroyan will take place. Panorama.am has been informed by the Ministry
of Culture that the mission of the conference is to reveal and present
the world various sides of Saroyan’s heritage. 50 literary critics,
writers from USA, UK, France, Russia, Syria and Georgia arrived in
Armenia to take part in the conference.
The organizers of the conference are the Ministry of Culture, the Union
of Writers’, the State Linguistic University named after V. Brusov,
Russian-Armenian Slavonic University, American University of Armenia
and Armenian company of cultural cooperation with foreign countries.
"Bitlis" cartoon is produced by state order devoted to the jubilee
anniversary of the writer, books and collections have been published,
a web site is created specialized on the writer’s life, etc.