Hovhannes Tumanyan Home-Museum to celebrate great writer’s birthday

The Hovhannes Tumanyan Home Museum will host on Tuesday celebrations dedicated to the 144th birth anniversary of  great Armenian writer and intellectual.

Director of the Museum Narine Tukhikyan said, speaking to our correspondent, that this year too, they will continue their annual tradition of collecting books for the border villages.

“Hovhannes Tumanyan’s birthday is also declared as book-gifting day. The library donates books to the border villages’ libraries also from its own resources. Besides, the quantity this time will depend on the number of books to be brought by others for assistance,” she said.

Though the day will focus on Tumanyan’s birthday, it is also planned to hold a book presentation event given that the writer’s name and essence is associated with books, Tukhikyan added.

“We have published his ideas – extracts from articles, letters and speeches – in Russian. Later this year, we are going to publish his translations of the Brothers Grimm fairytales, Hansel and Gretel and Red Hood, with lavish illustrations. It will be available in three languages; German and French will supplement the Armenian version as Tumanyan used those languages while translating the fairytales,” she said, noting that this year marks the 100th anniversary of Tumanyan’s translation of Brothers’ Grimm.

The books will also include comments on the fairytale symbols.

Tukhikyan promised that the anniversary events will make the museum a lively and merry place for visitors. “From 11:00am until five the museum will be pleased with every single visit. The active visitors will not leave with empty-handed,” she said.