YEREVAN, JULY 10, ARMENPRESS: This week the rating list of the Yerevan Bestseller, represented by Armenpress News Agency, is headed by "The Alchemist" novel by contemporary Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. This book has been translated into 67 languages and according to AFP, it has sold more than 30 million copies in 56 different languages, becoming one of the best-selling books in history and winning the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author. An allegorical novel, The Alchemist follows a young Andalusian shepherd named Santiago in his journey to Egypt, after having a recurring dream of finding treasure there. The Alchemist follows the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago, believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, decides to travel to a Romani in a nearby town to discover its meaning. A gypsy woman tells him that there is a treasure in the Pyramids in Egypt. Early into his journey, he meets an old king, Melchizedek, who t
YEREVAN, JANUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan issued a congratulatory message on the occasion of the New Year and Christmas holidays, noting that we will bring our ship, the Republic of Armenia, to a peaceful harbor in the stormy ocean.
YEREVAN, JANUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan issued a congratulatory message on the occasion of the New Year and Christmas holidays, noting that we will bring our ship, the Republic of Armenia, to a peaceful harbor in the stormy ocean.
YEREVAN, JANUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan issued a congratulatory message on the occasion of the New Year and Christmas holidays, noting that we will bring our ship, the Republic of Armenia, to a peaceful harbor in the stormy ocean.
Today marks 124th birth anniversary of Yeghishe Charents
Today, March 13, marks the 124th birthday anniversary of prominent Armenian poet, writer and public activist Yeghishe Charents.
Yeghishe Charents (Yeghishe Soghomonyan) was born in Kars (then a part of the Russian Empire) in 1897 to a family engaged in rug trade.
He first attended an Armenian, but later transferred to a Russian technical secondary school in Kars from 1908 to 1912. In 1912, he had his first poem published in the Armenian periodical Patani (Tiflis).
Amid the upheavals of the First World War and the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, he volunteered to fight in a detachment in 1915 for the Caucasian Front. Sent to Van in 1915, Charents was a witness to the destruction that the Turkish garrison had laid upon the Armenian population, leaving indelible memories that would later be read in his poems. He left the front one year later, attending school at the Shanyavski People s University in Moscow. The horro