Here Tolstoy’s daughter, who read about the greatest sufferings, tragedies and horrors of war in the books, for the first time clashes with harsh reality. Particularly, condition of local and migrant Armenians had deep impact on her.
Peter Balakian, an English professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., shot to the top of the poetry world on Monday when his new collection, “Ozone Journal,” won a Pulitzer Prize, The Washington Post reports. The judges praised his verse for bearing “witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.”
Both in creative and everyday life Sergei Parajanov never stopped being different from others, an individual seeking for and finding unique solutions. People tell that, upon his initiative every feast was becoming an unforgettable event for the guests. Especially the birthday on January 9 of the film director was the one. Although Zaven Sargsyan, Master’s old friend, and currently director of S.Parajanov House-Museum, told 168.am that he usually spent his birthday on his son’s—Suren Parajanov’s birthday on November 9.
Saryan decides to paint his portrait. An interesting episode is being told from this rendezvous, “…all leave the studio, Saryan starts painting. But after some time Steinbeck jumps out of the room and exclaims alarmed:
-This old man feels bad. He’s angry and murmurs something loudly …
Famous documentary filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian has been a long time in Armenia. Currently he is in Yerevan, a few days ago celebrated his birthday, and today, together with his old friend, another legendary Armenian—composer Tigran Mansurian visited Komitas Pantheon, after which the two prominent Armenians were hosted at Komitas Museum-Pantheon, where in the company of […]
Numerous publications may be found as evidence on Russian well-known filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s Armenian relations. It’s not a secret, that he had connections and relations with lots of Armenians. It’s also known, that while studying at All-Union Institute of Cinematography, he shoot some episodes of his short film “Steamroller and the violin” in Yerevan, at […]
From 1950s, more exactly after Stalin’s death and the party’s meeting condemning personality cult, the so-called thaw period was launched in the Soviet Union, which, together with its restricted manifestations, had essential reflection especially on country’s cultural environment, as well as created an opportunity to somewhat crack the “iron curtain” separating it from the West. […]
As American revolutionary Thomas Paine said, “The Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” It’ll be an exaggeration, if I say in Armenia we deal with the worst case. We constantly complain how bad our government is, we are often upset why the government doesn’t do this or that.
Sergo appears on the arena and starts his speech. Dead silence in the hall. Then, walls of the building shake from applauses and exclamations. People were hugging one another and crying, victorious “hurrah!” was heard everywhere. The promise was kept.
“Sarkis K. Mazmanian, a professor of biology at Caltech studying bacteria and their impact on immunity and on the human body, is being awarded “no strings attached” MacArthur grant. Mazmanian’s findings are revealing links between gut bacteria or microbes and immunity, autism, multiple sclerosis, and other major diseases,” the paper wrote. Mazmanian, became one of 23 laureates, and was awarded USD 500.000, which he might use for any purpose.
