Gurgen Maari widow's book published in EnglishMarch 6, 2009 - 19:08 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A book presentation"My Odysseus" written in English by Antonina Mahari will be held March 22 in an Armenian "St.David" church, Florida. The book was written in the 70's of the previous century, but published much later."In Soviet times I was afraid to publish the book, and I only managed to do it in 2003 in honour of Gourgen Mahari's 100 anniversary, with the help offered by the head of Writers' Union, Levon Ananyan," said the writer during the talk with the PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent.In 1945 the 22- year old Antonina Povelaititi, a student of Vilnius University, was accused for participating in the clandestine organization fighting for "Independent Lithuania" and was expelled to the Siberia camps for five years. There she met her future husband, a political prisoner, Gourgen Mahari. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |