Armenian Writers Association of California to hold New Year meeting on Jan. 19

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Celebrating the New Year, there will be a special literary meeting of the Armenian Writers Association of California, sponsored by Glendale Public Library on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.



Special guests from Armenia, poets Natella Lalabekian and Artem Harutyunian will be present and will read their recent works. Members of AWAOC and lovers of literature are invited, attendance is open and free.

Artem Harutyunyan

Poet, translator, laureate of Armenia\'s state award, Doctor of Philology and member of Writers\' Union of Armenia, Artem Harutyunyan was born in Stepanakert on September 19, 1945. He completed his PhD in English Literature at Moscow Gorki Institute of International Literature. He has lectured at the State University of Yerevan, Moscow, the Sorbonne, Marseille (France), Durham (England), Cleveland, Harvard and Los Angeles. He also served as NKR representative to Washington in 1994-95.

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