Armenian Literature Foundation at XVI Tbilisi International Book Festival
29-31 May 2014
Arevik Ashkharoyan, Book Platform Local Project Manager for Armenia, took part in the Literary Forum and Dialogue for publishers, translators and writers, as well as XVI Tbilisi International Book
Festival from May 29 to 31, 2014. Armenian collective stand at the Literary Festival presented Book Platform studies and other promotional materials. The
Study of Translation into Armenian in 1991-2013, which was published just recently, was also presented and
distributed among interested visitors.
The meetings will result in long terms cooperation with some of the publishers such as Arco Verlag, Austria. Mr Christoph Haacker, Editor of Arco, mentioned about their plans to publish Armenian classical writer, as well as a collection of materials on Genocides. Ms Ashkharoyan mentioned the translations support program offered since this year to international publishers to translate Armenian literature as well as willingness to support Arco Verlag in researching more materials on Armenian Genocide at the Genocide Museum-Institute of Yerevan. Other publishers interested in Armenian literature were Emmanuelle Collas (Galaade Editions, France), Sonja Matheson (Baobab Books, Switzerland), Adam Berta (Europa Publishing, Hungary), Isabel Kupski (Fisher Verlag, Germany). ALF will keep contacts with these and other international and Georgian publishers in the future to establish long-term cooperation and update them on the news of Book Platform activities in Armenia as well as follow-ups of the activities and other self-sustainability measures of the project.
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