The Book Prize Index

Passage to Ararat

Michael J. Arlen

> All my life, Armenia and Armenians had been part of a dream; it and they were out there somewhere, hazy, nearly invisible. Now I was traveling into the dream. I would see what I would see. I would find what I would find. -Michael J. Arlen (author) > Arlen has combined history with his search for cultural identity, thus making the meaning of great events personal and urgent, and the significance of a personal story universal... all this makes PASSAGE TO ARARAT continually irresistible. -THE NEW YORK TIMES > What is most valuable about this quiet, burning book is that the journey its author made can take you part of the way down the trail of your own. -ROLLING STONE

Travel & PlaceTravel & Place · medium confidenceTravel & Place81 signalsLlm Classifier: Travel & Place -> Travel & PlaceOpen Library: Arlen, michael, 1895-1956 -> BiographyOpen Library: Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 -> War & MilitaryMemoir & Personal HistoryTravel, Exploration & PlaceLiterature & Writers

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor1976Co-winnerSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Armenia45%
    • Ararat55%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.