John Updike
The great Pulitzer Prize winning American author John Updike had once visited Sergei Parajanov at his home in Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet Union (USSR). Another American giant of literature,  the poet Allen Ginsberg, had also dropped by on a separate occasion. Updike drew a self-portrait, inscribed it – “Self-portrait by John Updike for my most kind friend Sergei Paradjanov” – and gifted it to Parajanov. Paradjanov responded by transforming Updike’s drawing into a collage (as he often liked to do with things from his celebrity fans).
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute 
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