Farewell
Farewell – literally meaning go on with your journey (fare) + in goodness, in good reason (wel). The Turkish participants are going back home with, as one of the participants said, the Armenian perspective alongside the Turkish one. We, Armenians, got to know the people whose ancestors used to live side by side with our ancestors in Constantinople and other parts of the Ottoman Empire. We also have a difficult journey ahead, an artistic journey, a life journey of pursuing the truth, the humane truth, the truth that exists only to unite, to seek justice, prevent wars and heal people. I am grateful for this opportunity to speak to the people from the other side and learn wordcraft from our brilliant mentors.
Farewell, in hope for the life making our paths cross again.
Norayr Manvelyan (b. 2000, Yerevan, Armenia) is a short-story writer in Armenian. His speakers are always self-critical as they are narrating the curious stories and the peculiar characters. Manvelyan’s inspirations are the people he has met on his life path and the experiences he shared with or the stories of which he has witnessed and heard about. Sincerity and music are cornerstones of the author’s prose work and especially poetry work. As an ultimate way of self-expression and introspection, Manvelyan gets exposed, almost naked against the whiteness of the paper, and dives into the depths of paper-ocean. “Writing is a perfectly rational process unless your pen is in your hand, then the pen takes you on a journey, and leads your hand in the unknown ways.” The poet believes in Love, the driving, creative and universal language that all the people have intrinsic knowledge of and can speak against all odds, Indifference, War and Hatred, and Beauty, the trace of Love in the physical and metaphysical reality we are living in.
With Love and Beauty.
