YEREVAN, JUNE 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The presentation of Diasporan Armenian writer Torgom Postajian's "Criticism and Document," "Prominent Armenian Literary Figures" and "Shelterless Exiles" books took place on June 16 at the Writers' Union of Armenia. The author presented in the first book analysis of modern Armenian prose-writers' and poets' works, and in the "Prominent Armenian Literary Figures", he presented articles dedicated to Eastern and Western Armenian writers' life and literary activity. T.Postajian's 15 stories are involved in the "Shelterless Exiles" book, in which the author touched upon emigration, an phenomenon pursuing the Armenian people continuously for centuries. According to WUA Chairman Levon Ananian, the Diasporan Armenian writer speaks in his stories about the emigration which has for centuries been an inseparable part of the Armenians' history. That phenomenon, according to him, was fixed in the 70s of the 20th century as well, reaching its apogee during the first years of newly independent Armenia. "The struggle for physical existence made many people take walking stick of emigration. This book appeals for soberness to all those who attempts like mad to migrate America and a number of European countries," L.Ananian mentioned. According to the WUA Chairman, T.Postajian had an important contribution in the education system of Diaspora as well: particularly, he founded in 1990s in the U.S. the Mesropian National College which had a great role in the issue of keeping the Armenian identity. On the same day T.Postajian was awarded with the WUA medal, with the memory medal of the RA Ministry of Education and Science and diploma of the Ararat Governor.

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