Yerevan International Book Festival

Program
All events are free to attend and open to the public. 
 

September 5

National Gallery of Armenia

12:00 Official Opening Ceremony of the 8th Yerevan International Book Festival

13:00 Confessions: English Poetry Reading – Hamlet Arakelyan, Anahit Ghazakhetsyan (Armenia), Helen Mort (United Kingdom)

17:00 Helen Mort: Creative Writing Workshop

19:00 Performance

 

September 6

National Gallery of Armenia

13։00 Poetry Reading by Jannah Loontjens

Discussion on Women’s Voices in World Literature. Yra van Dijk, Maria van Dordrecht, Iris Kater Mirsalari

17։00 Presentation of William Saroyan’s Twenty-Two Unpublished Stories Collection․ Antares

20։00 Music

 

September 7
National Gallery of Armenia

14։00 Literature and Reading Cultures: Paths to Promotion - Discussion with Publishers and Industry Representatives

Daniel Danielyan, Armen Martirosyan (Armenia), Gvantsa Jobava (Georgia), Alessi Schreiber (Italy)

15։00 Big stories, Small Languages. Discussion with Publishers and Literary Agents

Nerses Ter-Vardanyan, Arevik Ashkharoyan (Armenia), Gvantsa Jobava, Elisabed Pirtskhalava (Georgia)

16։00 Meeting with Poet Helen Mort (United Kingdom)

16:30 Meeting with Poet Eka Kevanishvili (Georgia)

17:00 Meri Yepremyan. Performance

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State theatre of musical comedy after Hakob Paronyan

19:00 Official Closing Ceremony of the Yerevan International Book Festival and Literary Awards Presentation