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“You have coloured our childhood. We are thankful to you for adding colours to our childhood and turning it into a tale,” 2nd and 3rd year students of the Faculty of Primary Education said during a meeting with the poet and children's writer Suren Muradyan.
The meeting initiated by the Literary Club was held at the Pedagogical University.
As future teachers, the students promised to make the writers' literary legacy the property of the 21st century children, making their childhood crystalline and carefree.
During the meeting, the students asked the writer numerous questions concerning his childhood, first steps in the writing career and his creative activities from the very beginning to our days when the writer published his latest book “My Last Stop.”
“Those who did not have a happy childhood cannot become good people,” said Suren Muradyan who had tested his skills and abilities even in a theatrical group and in painting. I realized that my calling is to create children's literature,” he added.
“Folklore is the source of my works, I also like tales,” the writer confessed adding that his birthplace, Akner village in Lori region, is the main source of his inspiration.
At the same time, the writer admitted that his ideal is the great Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan who was born in Dsegh village in Lori. Tumanyan has always been and remains his teacher.
Suren Muradyan, a graduate of Armenian State Pedagogical University, considers the years spent at the University to be among the happiest years of his life.
“It was at this University that I met the famous writers Hovhannes Shiraz, Avetik Isahakyan and Nairi Zaryan. Besides, during the years of studies I published my first books.”
Referring to his meeting with University students, the writer stressed it was one of the rare cases when the audience was familiar with and fond of the writer’s works.
Eva Mnatsakanyan, head of the Literary Club and Associate Professor at the same Department, thanked the guest for visiting the University and added that even in many years’ time students read and study the writer’s works with love and pleasure.
