Venezia, September 24th, 2013
Dear Varujan Vosganian,
on behalf of the City and Municipality of Venice, and of the University of Venice, we have the pleasure of inviting you to the literary event Incroci di civiltà (Crossings of Civilizations) that will take place in Venice, Italy on 2-5 April 2014.
Incroci di civiltà is an international literary festival that celebrates the long-standing tradition of Venice as the meeting place of peoples and cultures. Rec...
Varujan Vosganian: Ein Armenier in Rumänien
Mit dem Roman „Buch des Flüsterns“ führt der aus Kleinasien stammende Varujan Vosganian in eine fantastische alte Welt.
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Die Großväter haben den Schöpfer dieses autobiografisch anmutenden Romans geprägt. Auch Garabet Vosganian war ein begnadeter Erzähler, dem sein 1958 geborener Enkel Varujan von Kindertagen an lauschte. Der Opa gab in der rumänischen Provinzstadt Focşani Geschichten aus seiner Fa...
In seara zilei de 18 noiembrie 2013, la Casa Johannes Lepsius din Potsdam a avut loc lansarea versiunii germane a Cartii soaptelor. In prezentarea sa, dl. Rolf Hosfeld, directorul Casei Lepsius a vorbit, printre altele, de o seama de asemanari intre opera lui Franz Werfel si Cartea soaptelor, precum si de anumite apropieri intre autor si William Faulkner.
Pastorul Johannes Lepsius, aflat in misiune umanitara in Anatolia in timpul primului razboi mondial, a fost cel dintai care a atras atenti...
Scriitura ca depoziţie
Poet al sentimentului metafizic (Șamanul Albastru, Ochiul alb al reginei, Iisus cu o mie de brațe,Portret de femeie şi Dansul cu moartea), Varujan Vosganian este şi un prozator de mare succes, cu volumul de nuvele Statuia Comandorului şi, mai ales, cu romanul Cartea şoaptelor (2009), recompensat cu premii import...
In aula Universitatii "Al. I. Cuza" din Iasi, in cadrul manifestarilor Festivalului International de Literatura si Traduceri, distinsa jurnalista si traducatoare Simona Sora a moderat o intalnire a scriitorilor Filip Florian si Varujan Vosganian cu studentii ieseni. S imona Sora a facut, cu acest prilej, o prezentare elogioasa Cartii soaptelor, in special pentru impactul romanului in lumea hispanica.
The translation, using Google and the original:
Some things you can not speak highly about. If they have to whisper . Whisper the Book , by Mr Varujan Vosganian , is a novel about the fate of the Armenian people during the 1900s .
Vosganian , self Armenians, was born in 1958 in Romania , and his perspective is Romanian , but with glimpses of parts of the world where Armenians lived. And there are a defeated people's fate , he writes about , a wayward nation, a nation that has repeatedly be...