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‘Historic Armenia’ by Matthew Karanian Earns Gold Medal for Best History Book

by Ara Khachatourian
April 14, 2016
in Arts & Culture, Books
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Matthew Karanian accepts the book prize for 'Historic Armenia After 100 Years' during an awards ceremony at the Independent Book Publishers Association in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 8. 'Historic Armenia' was acclaimed as the best independently published history book of 2015.
Matthew Karanian accepts the book prize for ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years’ during an awards ceremony at the Independent Book Publishers Association in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 8. ‘Historic Armenia’ was acclaimed as the best independently published history book of 2015.

SALT LAKE CITY— ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years’ by Matthew Karanian (www.HistoricArmeniaBook.com) received the top honor for best independently published history book of 2015 during an awards ceremony this week.
Karanian’s groundbreaking book about Western Armenia received the gold medal in the category of history during the annual Benjamin Franklin Book Awards ceremony, which was held on April 8 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Independent Book Publishers Association, the largest association of publishers in the US, awarded the prize. This is the first time that a book about Armenia has earned this top award.
Nearly 1,400 titles, all published in 2015, competed for recognition.
The award is one of the highest national honors for independent publishers in the US. ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years’ is the first-ever historical guide to the cultural sites of Western Armenia, and includes 125 color photographs and maps.
Karanian accepted the gold medal during a gala awards ceremony that was attended by more than 250 authors and publishers from throughout the US. Karanian told the group that he wrote the book in order to shine a bright light on the often-overlooked history of Armenia.
“Armenia is one of the oldest nations in the world that nobody’s ever heard of,” Karanian told the audience. He added that the book is a celebration of Armenia, and not a eulogy. “Armenia was almost destroyed in 1915 during the first genocide of the twentieth century,” he told the crowd. “But the nation survived. This book is a celebration of that survival,” Karanian said during his acceptance speech.
The Benjamin Franklin Book Award is known informally in the publishing industry as a “Benny” and has been awarded each year since 1983. The award recognizes the best independently published books among diverse categories that include Fiction, Memoir, Photography, Travel, and History. A panel of publishing professionals, and librarians judge the books each year.
This is the second time this year that ‘Historic Armenia’ has been recognized with a prestigious national award. Foreword Reviews recognized the book earlier this year as a finalist in the INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards. The top winner of that book prize will be celebrated during a program at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida in June. The complete list of 2016 Benjamin Franklin Book Award winners is online at www.ibpabenjaminfranklinawards.com
‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years’ is sold at independent bookstores and at Barnes and Noble in the US, and is available for purchase online from the publisher, Stone Garden Press, at www.HistoricArmeniaBook.com.

Ara Khachatourian

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Comments 3

  1. Alex Postallian says:
    6 years ago

    THANK YOU MATTHEW…..

    Reply
  2. Sylva~MD~poetry says:
    6 years ago

    Read hidtory …
    Read true history of the ancient Armenia…
    Better than reading fiction books…
    Sylva

    Reply
  3. Sylva~MD~poetry says:
    6 years ago

    “Historic Armenia by Matthew Karanian”
    Read history …
    Read true history of the ancient Armenia…
    A nation suffered for centuries
    As a dedicated, honest, artful race
    Despite all that… they continued creating, serving humanity …

    Through their deepest, gifted cardiocyte (cardiac cells).
    Yes, buy the book and keep it
    In your library for your offsprings,
    After writing few notes from you in it…
    For them to read and never to forget
    Their grandfathers’ amazing talents.
    Yes, better than reading fiction books…
    Fictions… will remain fictions
    Exhaling fictionality …till … decay…s…
    Soon will be discarded from libraries without haste…
    Dr. Sylva Portoian
    April 15, 2016
    written instantly

    Reply

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