YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 20, ARMENPRESS: It is already four years that the all-Armenian Book Giving Day is marked February 19 thanks to the efforts of the Writers Union of Armenia. Levon Ananyan, Chairman of the Writers Union of Armenia, said this is a successful initiative. Armenian Ministries of Education and Science and Culture have already joined it, organizing "Admission with Book" series of events.

"It means that the movement of book giving is not only a matter of intellectual, public and strategic significance," Levon Ananyan told Armenpress.

Armenian writers implement different projects on book giving in different establishments of the capital, in provinces, military units.

Chairman of the Writers Union of Armenia emphasized that the goal of the Writers Union is to turn the ritual of book giving into a lifestyle, a national program.

In answer to the question of Armenpress' correspondent the Chairman of the Writers Union said the favorite Armenian author of all time is Tumanyan and the foreign one is Shakespeare.

Levon Ananyan assured that thanks to Tumanyan's verses the crystallized wisdom of Armenian people is conveyed to generations.

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