Role: Artist

Vruir Galstyan's work evolved while he still held a brush in his hands. There is no need to guess or predict: forecasting is based on the facts of his creative work. It is no by chance that the great Sarian spoke of him as "a phenomenon worthy of special attention.

Despite attempts to earn a living at farming, fishing, truck driving, advertising, and dishwashing, William Papas has never been able to stop drawing and has always returned to an artistic vocation. His illustrations, cartoons, and reportage have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, and he has also worked on several books for adults and children. He now spends much of his time traveling with his wife, Tessa, looking for material for new paintings and projects.

American author whose stories celebrated optimism in the middle of trials and difficulties of the Depression-era. Several of Saroyan's works were drawn from his own experiences, although his approach to autobiographical facts can be called poetic. His advice to a young writer was: "Try to learn to breathe deeply; really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell." Saroyan worked tirelessly to perfect a prose style, that was full of zest of for life and was seemingly impressionistic. The style became known as 'Saroyanesque.' \

Born Vazken Pascal Bakmazjian, 1969, in Beirut, Lebanon, he began at an early age sketching images of war torn Lebanon. As a caricaturist he depicted the faces of prominent politicians.\