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William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, to Armenian immigrant parents from Turkish (Western) Armenia.The Armenian community in Fresno—already significant by the 1910s—grew larger by the influx of genocide survivors and Saroyan grew up in an Armenian environment. [3]
William Saroyan [2] (/ s ə ˈ r ɔɪ ə n /; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy.
Cousins Bagdasarian, a songwriter, and Saroyan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, wrote the song while driving across New Mexico in the summer of 1939. The melody is based on an Armenian folk song, and the lyrics reference traditional Armenian customs of hospitality.
Commentary: His ancestral homeland honors a famous son who won the Pulitzer Prize.
First edition (publ. Harcourt Brace) Illustrated by Don Freeman. My Name is Aram is a 1940 short story collection by American author William Saroyan.The stories detail the exploits of Aram Garoghlanian, a boy of Armenian descent growing up in Fresno, California, and the various members of his large family.
“The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse” is narrated by a nine-year-old Armenian boy named Aram, a member of the Garoghlanian tribe, living among the lush fruit orchards and vineyards of the San Joaquin Valley in California. One morning Aram is awakened at four in the morning by his thirteen-year-old cousin Mourad, who is said to be the ...
Work started on Armenian Estates more than two years ago, but the development has come into sharper focus this summer. Two imposing homes and a pool house stand on the 20-acre lot, which is marked ...
Saroyan (Armenian: Սարոյան) is a surname of Armenian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Camille Saroyan, a character in the TV series Bones; Sedrak Saroyan (1967–2022), Armenian general and politician; William Saroyan (1908–1981), Pulitzer Prize–winning Armenian-American author