June 04, 2015
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AGBU Plovdiv Hosts Theatrical Premiere of Varujan Vosganian’s The Book of Whispers

  • On April 25, 2015, AGBU Plovdiv hosted the premiere of the M
    On April 25, 2015, AGBU Plovdiv hosted the premiere of the Malvina Manukyan Children's Theater Group theatrical performance of the 2009 novel The Book of Whispers [Romanian: Cartea soaptelor] at the State Puppet Theater in Plovdiv.
  • Varujan Vosganian is one of Romania’s leading contemporary w
    Varujan Vosganian is one of Romania’s leading contemporary writers and was the Minister of Finance and the Economy in Romania from 2006 to 2008.

On April 25, 2015, AGBU Plovdiv hosted a premiere for the Malvina Manukyan Children's Theater Group’s theatrical performance of the 2009 novel The Book of Whispers [Romanian: Cartea soaptelor] at the State Puppet Theater in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

The Book of Whispers is set in the Armenian quarter of the eastern Romanian town of Focşani in the 1950s, but travels through Armenian history, touching on the legends of Ara the Beautiful and Tigran the Great, the Armenian Genocide and Stalinist Armenia. Through the narrative, Vosganian addresses notions of individual and collective trauma, both past and present.

Varujan Vosganian is one of Romania’s leading contemporary writers and was the Minister of Finance and the Economy in Romania from 2006 to 2008. Vosganian—one of the four Romanian writers nominated for the Nobel Prize for Fiction in 2014—is an economist and mathematician as well as the author of several volumes of poetry, prose and non-fiction pieces. He is also vice president of the Romanian Writers’s Union and president of the Union of Armenians in Romania. His works have been translated in Armenian, Hebrew and Spanish. Only excerpts of his works have appeared in English.

Born in Romania in 1958, Vosganian took his family’s story as the subject of his novel: “I wrote a novel about my roots and the generations before me, but the main protagonist in it is the 20th century and the great pain it caused humanity and history,” Vosganian told the Israeli newspaper YnetNews in 2012.

For more information about AGBU Plovdiv, please visit www.agbubulgaria.org.

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