“Pagin” at 60 is Committed and Has a New Initiative
The literary journal Pagin, organ of Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society, completed its sixtieth year in 2022.
A literary bridge between the Armenian diaspora and Armenia, a gathering place over six decades for classical and contemporary Western Armenian writers, Pagin, with its literary, literary critical, epistemic, and artistic content, is also a platform for young intellectuals and innovative thinkers.
Overcoming many difficulties over the decades, Pagin has published over 40,000 pages of literature and continuing to row against the current, it overcomes present-day challenges that range from financial to generational and beyond.
Keeping up with the times, Pagin is accessible to its readers in all conceivable ways. We are now pleased to announce, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary, that the editors have initiated “Pagin Books,” aimed at putting especially diaspora literary-critical works in the spotlight for the benefit of researching intellectuals and the book-loving public.
To launch this series, we start with a collection of essays written over five decades by the Armenian diaspora intellectual Haroutiun Kurkjian, Spiurk yev inknatsum: Spiurkahay gatsutiun yev kraganutiun: Verludzumner (“Diaspora and Identity: The Diaspora Armenian Situation and Literature Analyzed”). The essays evoke a certain timeframe, the depth of certain existential questions, and conjunctions with the other, in an attempt to make the diaspora a place of thought.
The volume may be obtained from Hamazkayin bookstores and the Pagin office.
Editors of Pagin
