Monday, September 9 2024 13:35

ArmInfo. Yerevan Book Fest announced the best writers of the year. The awards ceremony for the  winners in the categories of , , and was traditionally held during the final day  of the festival.  

A total of 250 applications were submitted by  Armenian authors to participate in the competition, but the jury  selected only 185 works. The winners were chosen through blind  reading. The jury was unaware of the authors' identities as they read  and evaluated the submissions up until the last moment

In particular, Hrachya Simonyan was recognized as the best in the  Prose nomination, and a special prize in the same category was  awarded to Aram Avetis (jury: Alvard Semirjyan, Ani Hovnanyan,  Arkmenik Nikoghosyan, Siranush Dvoyan and Susanna Harutyunyan); in  the Poetry nomination - Razmik Grigoryan (jury: Arpi Voskanyan, Hakob  Movses, Hasmik Simonyan, Henrik Edoyan and Nerses Atabekyan). For the  Drama nomination - Vahagn Dabaryan (jury: Anahit Aramuni Keshishyan,  Gevorg Sahakyan, Ruben Babayan, Sate Khachatryan and Tatev  Hovakimyan); in the nomination -  Mariam Hergnyan (jury: Narine Gizhlaryan, Ruzan Tonoyan, Sabet  Oganesyan, Vanuhi Baghramyan and Varduhi Baloyan).

To note that the festival is being held in Armenia for the 7th time.  This year the event took place from September 6 to 8 with the support  of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports and was  organized in cooperation with the Museum of Literature and Art named  after E. Charents and the public organization . The  main sponsor of the festival is the Yerevan Municipality.