Norayr Olgar

On February 21, 2026, an official commemoration ceremony was held in Montreuil to mark the 82nd anniversary of the execution of Missak Manouchian and 22 fellow resistance fighters, who resisted the Nazi occupation during World War II and were executed by firing squad at Mont Valérien on February 21, 1944.

This year’s grant covered literary works written in Western Armenian from any period and across all literary genres. Among the submissions received, two works were found equally successful by the judges.