We are pleased to announce the publication of “The Deaconesses of the Armenian Church”, the latest work by Dr. Abel H. Manoukian. Published in August 2024 by Aschendorff Verlag as part of the Studia...
We are pleased to announce the publication of “The Deaconesses of the Armenian Church”, the latest work by Dr. Abel H. Manoukian. Published in August 2024 by Aschendorff Verlag as part of the Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia series, this book explores the often-overlooked tradition of ordained deaconesses in the Armenian...
The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation launched the second phase of the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Series at the end of 2023. This new phase of the project will continue to make seminal texts in the humanities and the social sciences available through Armenian translations. Out of...
արդ եւս|in view is the only grant programme dedicated to cultural creativity in the Western Armenian language. Culture constitutes an essential resource for the development of a language and a people. Culture, as well as heritage, are vehicles for identities and values, and should be used to build stronger and wider...
The Tekeyan Centre Fund, summing up the results of its 2022 activity, is moving forward remaining true to its mission and policy, and implementing humanitarian, cultural, educational programs formed over the years. 2022 was no exception; so, many charitable programs were accomplished. Among the important cultural achievements of the...
արդ եւս|in view 2022 – 2023 THE WESTERN ARMENIAN CULTURE PROGRAMME The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is happy to be launching the second edition of արդ եւս|in view – the grant programme dedicated to cultural creativity in the Western Armenian language. Through this flagship programme, the Department will...
June 14, 2022: Aurora’s Sunrise is a historical animated documentary film about the life of Aurora Mardiganian. At only 14 years old, in 1915, Aurora faced the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. Within a year, witnessing the deaths of everyone in her family, Aurora had lost everything, and was sold into...
Serge Momjian’s new book “Vardan” was published in London. The author, Serge Momjian, splendidly recaptures the horror of theChristian persecutions and martyrs of the past and the terrific spiritof Vardan, who, along with the Armenian people, defended theirprinciples during a turbulent period of their history. The book offersfresh and...
A book by Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan, ‘The Orphanage’, has been included on the list of three finalists of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Literature Prize 2022. The EBRD Literature Prize celebrates the very best in translated literature from the almost 40 countries where the Bank invests,...
The Georgian writer Iva Pezuashvili has won the 2022 European Union Prize for Literature for his book A Garbage Chute. The jury also gave a special mention to Ukrainian writer Eugenia Kuznetsova for her book Ask Miyechka, as well as to writers from Bosnia Herzegovina, Belgium, Spain, and Ireland. The nominees for 2022 came from...
Armenian poet Razmik Davoyan died in Yerevan today at the age of 81. Razmik Davoyan, was born in 1940 in Mets Parni, Spitak, Armenia. At the age of nine he moved to Leninakan with his family where he graduated from high school and from the local Medical College in...