Armenian Ministry of Culture will officially invite Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Armenia
Armenian Minister of Culture is intended to invite Colombian novelist, short-story writer and journalist, one of the most significant authors of the 20th century Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Armenia, spokesperson of the ministry told Panorama.am.
“The ministry has discussed the proposal of the initiative group called “Let’s invite Marquez to Armenia” and we prepare a letter addressed to the writer,” Gayane Durgaryan said.
An initiative group is created in Facebook social network which aims to invite great writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Armenia. The group has applied to Hasmik Pogosyan, Minister of Culture of Armenia with an official letter for the invitation, which reads.
“Respected Minister, we are informed that UNESCO has granted Yerevan as Book Capital in 2012. In this respect we’d like Armenia to host world-known Columbian writer, Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The initiative group has more than 2500 members. Now we apply to You and ask You to send an official invitation to Garcia Marquez.”