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AZG Armenian Daily #148, 23/08/2005
Literature
SAROYAN PRIZE FINDS WINNERS
Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, authors of "The King of California", and George
Hagen, author of "The Laments", won the biennial William Saroyan
International Prize for Writing on July 19, Armenian Mirror Spectator
informs. The first book received the Prize in non-fiction category and the
second one in fiction category. The Stanford University Libraries and the
William Saroyan Foundation presented the prizes, $12.500 each. The Saroyan
Foundation was created in 1966 to encourage beginner writers. In 1990, the
trustees handed Saroyan's literary legacy to the Stanford University. This
year's contest gathered 125 participants in each category. Prizewinner Mark
Arax is a famous journalist from the Los Angeles Times living in Fresno, CA.
Wartzman lives in Los Angeles and is the editor of business-economic section
of the paper. Arax and Wartzman document the creation of a cotton kingdom in
the San Joaquin Valley in "The King of California". Hagen lives in Brooklyn,
and "The Laments", being his first novel, follows a family who travels from
Africa to England to New Jersey.
By Hakob Tsulikian
Literature
SAROYAN PRIZE FINDS WINNERS
Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, authors of "The King of California", and George
Hagen, author of "The Laments", won the biennial William Saroyan
International Prize for Writing on July 19, Armenian Mirror Spectator
informs. The first book received the Prize in non-fiction category and the
second one in fiction category. The Stanford University Libraries and the
William Saroyan Foundation presented the prizes, $12.500 each. The Saroyan
Foundation was created in 1966 to encourage beginner writers. In 1990, the
trustees handed Saroyan's literary legacy to the Stanford University. This
year's contest gathered 125 participants in each category. Prizewinner Mark
Arax is a famous journalist from the Los Angeles Times living in Fresno, CA.
Wartzman lives in Los Angeles and is the editor of business-economic section
of the paper. Arax and Wartzman document the creation of a cotton kingdom in
the San Joaquin Valley in "The King of California". Hagen lives in Brooklyn,
and "The Laments", being his first novel, follows a family who travels from
Africa to England to New Jersey.
By Hakob Tsulikian