“Presentation of the book “Towards The Gallows” by Gevorg Halajyan”


    On February 24, 2015 the presentation of the book “Towards The Gallows” by Gevorg Halajyan took place in the YCCL. The book represents the life of the writer in Turkish jail in years 1925-28. The original publication of the book consisted of about 900 pages but the Political Research Fund “Verelq” has selected the parts which best describe the writer and armenians of that century. The event was opened by the director of the YCCL CNCO Hasmik Karapetyan. She stated once more the importance of translating the books of Armenian writers, especially those devoted to the Armenian Genocide in order to make it available for the non-Armenian readers. She was happy to announce that the book will also be published in Turkish. Public speaker, freedom fighter and the speaker of the book Gevorg Halajyan presented some photos and documents and told some less known facts about the author. Other interesting details were presented by editor of the book, the president of Political Research Fund “Verelq” Artsrun Pepanyan, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University lecturer Margarita Khachatryan, historian Gevorg Yazchyan, philologist Miqayel Hayrapetyan and others. The host of the event, actress, reciter Gayaneh Samvelyan read some important fragments from the book.

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