Literary Corner
‘It lingers in my mind.’
On February 19, 2020, I received an email from writer and scholar David Calonne, whose review of my 2017 novel The Naked & the Nude was published in the Armenian Weekly last summer. Calonne was […]
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Literary Corner
The Armenian Institute Presents Leon Surmelian’s 1945 ‘I Ask You, Ladies and Gentlemen’
I Ask You Ladies and Gentlemen is Leon Surmelian’s personal tale of deep sorrow and profound gratitude, of terrible loss and a lively embrace of life itself. The out-of-print book, first published in 1945, a […]
Literary Corner
Janbazian’s ‘Saroyan in Armenian’ Translation Now Online
LOS ANGELES, Calif.— Sosé & Allen’s Legacy Foundation recently announced the online release of Rupen Janbazian’s Western Armenian translation of two of William Saroyan’s short stories free and available to the public. The Saroyan in […]
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Grand Opening of the William Saroyan House Museum
FRESNO, Calif.—This year, on August 31, the 110th anniversary of famed author William Saroyan’s birth, a house-museum in his name will open its doors to visitors in Fresno, California, in the house that Saroyan spent […]