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Ahead of Book Giving Day, Newmag presents its 5th

Ahead of Book Giving Day, Newmag presents its 5th Winterfest (trailer)

02/04/2026

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On February 7, Yerevan will host the main literary event of the winter, the Newmag Winterfest 2026, jointly organized by Newmag Publishing House and the Tovmasyan Foundation. The festival will take place at Dvin Music Hall, welcoming visitors from noon until late evening. Admission is free.

For the fifth consecutive year, Newmag brings together the Winterfest, presenting new works by Armenian authors alongside representatives of various artistic fields. Over the years, Winterfest has become a key cultural platform for literature, art, and dialogue.

This year, the festival will feature four new books by four Armenian authors. Well-known and widely read writers Gor Karapetyan and Marianna Hakobyan will present their latest works, “LinkedIn 101” and “Don’t Change the Names”.

The program also includes the year’s literary discovery, young author David Georgyan, whose novel “Impedance” was selected as the best emerging work by Newmag and the Tovmasyan Foundation. The festival’s central sports-literature event will be the presentation of Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s memoir “My Life Always at the Center”.

Newmag Winterfest 2026 goes beyond a traditional book festival. It unites literature, art, and music, offering visitors a rich and immersive cultural experience.

Throughout the day, guests can attend book presentations, discussions with prominent authors, the award ceremony of the “Tsil” creative competition organized by the Amrots Foundation. 

The festival will open with a concert by the Miqayel Voskanyan Trio, blending folk, jazz, and contemporary rhythms. Later in the day, audiences will enjoy an ethnic Afrohouse performance, and the festival will conclude with a live concert by an Armenian band. 

As part of the program, Freedom Broker Armenia will present its magazine, offering accessible and professional insights into financial markets and investments.

Newmag Winterfest 2026 is co-organized by the Tovmasyan Foundation, with Ardshinbank, Freedom Broker Armenia and Cinema Star Armenia as main sponsors.

Newmag Winterfest 2026 is a space where words turn into celebration, stories come alive, and art becomes accessible to all.

February 7 | Dvin Music Hall

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LinkedIn 101
LinkedIn 101

Gor Karapetyan

5800 ֏

Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest “business hub.” 65 million decision-makers and 10 million C-level executives are active on this social platform. This book offers systematic solutions for building your personal brand in the environment and implementing it for business impact.

The book is packed with local and international examples and stories. At the end of the chapters, there are thematic questions that together form 101 structured questions. They are aimed at solving specific B2B problems: positioning, building trust, effectively communicating with decision-makers and building a long-term professional reputation.

This approach allows you to apply the material in a phased and practical way. Numerous application principles are presented, QR codes are included that direct the reader to additional tools and supporting materials, making the book more practical and applicable.

My life is always in the center
My life is always in the center

Alessandro Alciato

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

7800 ֏

Description

Henrikh Mkhitaryan was born into football, yet his journey was forged as much by loss as by talent. His father, Hamlet Mkhitaryan—one of the most formidable strikers in Armenian football history—played in France’s Ligue 2 and shaped the family’s life around the game. When Hamlet died of brain cancer at just 33, Henrikh was only seven. The grief was profound; for a time, he could not even bring himself to touch a ball. But from that silence emerged a promise: to go where his father could not.

At fourteen, Mkhitaryan left home for Brazil to train with São Paulo, immersing himself in a new football culture, refining his technique, adopting a more creative style, and learning Portuguese along the way. What followed was a career defined by relentless progression and ambition: Pyunik, Metalurh, Shakhtar Donetsk, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United, and Arsenal—each step elevating his status on the European stage.

In 2019, he moved to Italy, spending three seasons with Roma before joining Inter Milan on July 2, 2022, under Simone Inzaghi. He quickly became a central figure in the Nerazzurri’s system, valued for his intelligence, discipline, and ability to influence decisive moments.

This book is more than the biography of an elite athlete. It is an intimate story of a son shaped by early bereavement, driven by devotion, and guided by a quiet, unwavering resolve. A portrait of determination, identity, and purpose—an inspiring account for anyone who believes in the power of work, sacrifice, and dreams that outlive loss.

Impedance
Impedance

David Georgyan

5800 ֏

Description

1956. By a special decree of the USSR’s top leadership, a top-secret underground military laboratory is established in Soviet Armenia.  Two young Armenians arrive from opposite ends of the world. From Russia comes Colonel Avakov, appointed commander of the facility and tasked with delivering results that could change the balance of power. From the United States comes Adikhanyan, a CIA operative dispatched to the Armenian SSR on a single mission: penetrate the lab and extract its most closely guarded secrets.  Inside, the rules are absolute. Every sound, every movement, every door that opens can trigger an irreversible chain of events.  Will Colonel Avakov complete his mandate—will he succeed in building a nuclear weapon? Can Adikhanyan, with his life on the line, obtain the information that could rewrite history?  In this espionage thriller with mystical undertones, the decisions that determine human destinies are made in silence—behind the laboratory’s heavy metal door. 

Don’t Change Names
Don’t Change Names

Marianna Hakobyan

5800 ֏

Description

After her mother’s death, journalist Lucy discovers two folders hidden in her mother’s office. Inside are notes about an incident in a Baghramyan Avenue apartment in 1999—an episode that should have become a criminal case, but two decades later resurfaces under the shadow of the statute of limitations, scrambling everyone’s moves and motives.  Lucy begins investigating, convinced she’s chasing a story. She doesn’t yet realize she’s walking into a legacy—one that will force her to inhabit her mother’s worst memories. Step by step, the trail pulls her back to the same building, the same address, and the same questions her family buried for years.  What will she uncover when the investigation turns toward her parents and their dark past? Are her mother’s manuscripts fiction—or a disguised personal diary? And the hardest question of all: does Lucy have the right to know everything her parents fought to conceal?  A fast-paced investigative novel where the heroine finds answers she never meant to seek—and pays the price of learning them.