CONFERENCE TO WILLIAM SAROYAN’S 100 ANNIVERSARY
On 6-10 October a conference devoted to 100 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.