Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, authors of “The King of California”, and George Hagen, author of “The Laments”, won the biennial William Saroyan International Prize for Writing on July 19, Armenian Mirror Spectator informs. The first book received the Prize in non-fiction category and the second one in fiction category. The Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation presented the prizes, $12.500 each. The Saroyan Foundation was created in 1966 to encourage beginner writers. In 1990, the trustees handed Saroyan’s literary legacy to the Stanford University. This year’s contest gathered 125 participants in each category. Prizewinner Mark Arax is a famous journalist from the Los Angeles Times living in Fresno, CA. Wartzman lives in Los Angeles and is the editor of business-economic section of the paper. Arax and Wartzman document the creation of a cotton kingdom in the San Joaquin Valley in “The King of California”. Hagen lives in Brooklyn, and “The Laments”, being his first novel, follows a family who travels from Africa to England to New Jersey.
By Hakob Tsulikian
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