Eghishe Annual Awarding
NKR Government Information and
Public Relations Department
March 05, 2010
Today, at the convoked regular sitting of the commission, winners of
2009 annual award of the Government prize after Yeghishe were handed
to winners.
Congratulating the prize winners in the name of the Government and
the Prime Minister, Suren Grigoryan, the Minister-Chief of the NKR
Government Staff noted that there is still a lot to be done in this
direction. Vardan Hakobyan, the Chairman of the Commission, the
Chairman of the NKR Writers’ Union also congratulated the winners and
expressed a wish that the works, so highly appreciated by the
Government, to be seen in the wide international scene.
According to nominations laureates were the following; Maxim
Hovhannisyan (literature "Feast of non gods"), Yuri Hovhannisyan (art
"Mashtots in Amaras" high relief), Sophie Ioannidis, Benik
Ghahramanyan (cinematography and TV films "Title at the end"), Melanya
Balayan (liberal arts "Armenian Aghvan church history").