March 3 - World Writers Day: Is Armenian society reading books?

President of the Writers’ Union Levon Ananyan strongly believes that the Armenian society is little by little redeveloping its interest in books.

Speaking to Tert.am, he said that 40 new members have quite recently joined the literary community, most being young people.

According to him, the majority of the more or less outstanding writers in Armenia – around 400 people – are members of the Union.

“They give a literary product. The annual book publishing has hit records in the past years – around 1,200 – 1,300 books, most being fiction literature,” he said, adding that about 135 million drams (about $ 375,000) are annually allocated from the State Budget for the books publication.  Read more... (415 words)

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