PRESENTATION OF COLLECTION "HERE AND THERE" BY AMERICAN ARMENIAN WRITER MARY KANDALIAN-ASLANIAN TAKES PLACE IN YEREVAN
Noyan Tapan
Oct 22, 2007
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. American Armenian writer Mary
Kandalian-Aslanian is one of the writers creating in a foreign
language, who cannot leave out the subjects of Armenian Genocide,
Armenian Cause, and Western Armenia from her creations. Levon
Ananian, the Chairman of the Armenian Union of Writers, said
this at the launching of the publication of the first, bilingual,
Armenian and English collection of stories "Here and There" by Mary
Kandalian-Aslanian. The launching took place on October 22 at the
Armenian Union of Writers. L. Ananian said that M. Kandalian-Aslanian
has been elected a Diasporan member of the Armenian Union of Writers.
In the words of writer, publicist Artur Andranikian, the publicist
does not present her heroes as Genocide victims, but tries to see the
Armenians in a new way. He said that M. Kandalian-Aslanian was afraid
of presenting her works to the public, but the forum of Armenian
writers creating in foreign languages organized in Yerevan gave her
strength to publish her collection as soon as possible.
M. Kandalian-Aslanian’s stories and essays have been published
in Armenian and foreign press. Some of her stories have received
the first prize of the Association of Armenian Arts in different
years. The publicist made the broadcasts of San Francisco’s Armenian
radio for 10 years.