POET VAHE ARSEN’S COLLECTION RETURN OF GREEN GODS TRANSLATED INTO DUTCH
Noyan Tapan
Feb 3, 2010
MAASSLUIS, FEBRUARY 3, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The presentation
of the Dutch translation of Armenian poet Vahe Arsen’s collection of
poems under the title Return of Green Gods took place in the Cultural
Center of the city of Maassluis, Holland. The collection of poems
was translated by Anna Maria Martirosjan-Mattaar.
According to the RA Foreign Ministry, Vahe Arsen was awarded the
annual prize Jambe 2010, and the Armenian Consulate was given the
first sample of the collection of poems published in Dutch.
This collection of poems is the first book translated into Dutch in
the past decades. Anna Maria Martirosjan-Mattaar has also prepared
for publishing into Dutch the David of Sassoon epic, which will be
published this April.