Armenian writers: a list of the most famous and unusual

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Armenian writing is one of the oldest literatures in the world. The moment of its origin falls on the 5th century after the creation of the Armenian alphabet (about 405-406). The fifth century is considered the "golden age". The period from the 10th to the 14th centuries is listed as the period of the Armenian revival. Apart from Classical Armenian, literature also developed in Middle Armenian.

Literature of the Middle Ages shared:

• to historical;
• religious;
• prose;
• poetry;
• legal.

List of Armenian writers:

1. Mesrop Mashtots.
2. Grigor Beledyan.
3. Eduard Avakyan.
4. Violet Grigoryan.
5. Gabriel Sundukyan.
6. Paruyr Sevak.

Below, each individual literary figure will be considered.

Mesrop Mashtots

Thanks to Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian literature was born. He was a scholar of linguistics whose merits were invaluable:

• creation of the Armenian alphabet;
• the founder of Russian literature andwriting;
• according to experts, he was also the progenitor of the Afghan and Georgian alphabets.

Since Mesrop was a purely religious person, he held positions in the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches, and also worked on the translation of the Bible, was engaged in theology and missionary work.

Grigor Beledyan

One of the greatest Armenian Soviet writers is Grigor Beledyan. He is considered a reformer of the Armenian literature writing. The range of genre creativity is huge: he is a prose writer, a poet, and also a literary critic. The writer has more than 30 book works in his arsenal.

Despite his already quite old age, Grigor continues to engage in professional activities. So, for his 70th birthday, he demonstrated 2 of his new books at once.

The reformatism of the Armenian writer consisted in the fact that he was able to prove the necessity and usefulness of the Western Armenian language, while he was already predicted to die.

The collection of novels en titled "Returning from the Night" is a unique creation and legacy for Armenian contemporary art.

Eduard Avakyan

Eduard Avakyan was engaged not only in writing, but also translated texts:

• poems by Petrarch, Camões, Shelley, Nekrasov, Pushkin;
• London stories and novels;
• compositions by Marshak, Kochevsky, Prishvin, Fraerman, Kvitko, Lira.

BLiterature preferred both prose and poetry. He is also deservedly one of the best children's Armenian writers. He has dozens of books in his arsenal, some of them are:

• "Guests of the Sun".
• "Magic World".
• "Rainbow".
• "Toad and cake" and others.

Avakyan Awards:

• Honored Cultural Worker;
• gold medal awarded by the Writers' Union of Armenia.

Violet Grigoryan

Violet is one of the most mysterious and yet famous Armenian writers.

Grigoryan was born in Iran in 1962. Studied at the Abovyan Pedagogical Institute.

Included in the following organizations:

• Magazine "Original".
• "Free Word Center".
• Union of Writers of Armenia (since 1990).

The poetry cycles "Rose of the Harem" and "Love" are full of freshness and novelty of the language, and the writing exudes originality and courage.

Poet's Awards:

• Komsomol Prize of the Armenian Soviet Republic in 1986.
• SPA Annual Award for Truly I Speak.
• 2000 Golden Cane Awarded by the State.

Gabriel Sundukyan

Gabriel Sundukyan is not only an Armenian writer, but also the founder of the direction of critical realism in the culture of Armenia.

The future literary figure was born in 1825 inthe capital of Georgia - Tiflis.

An interesting fact: throughout his life, being engaged in creativity, he was listed in the civil service and reached the rank of general.

In his works, the Armenian writer expressed and tried to convey to readers the acute social problems of society. His works represent a whole historical period of Armenian dramaturgy.

Merit of Gabriel Sundukyan:

• displayed real life, solemnly affirming critical realism;
• displaced the comedy genre from the vaudeville boundaries of the household level to the socially generalized;
• showed the bourgeoisification of the people of Armenia and the intensity of social aggravations.

In the work "Pepo" Sundukyan vividly demonstrates the heroic image, consisting of the people.

Many plays have been translated into other languages of the world, and some phrases from his works have become common expressions.

Paruyr Sevak

The list of Armenian writers is completed by the poet and literary critic Sevak Paruyr. He is also a Doctor of Philology and a laureate of the State Prize of the Armenian Soviet Republic.

The historical events when Sevak's parents were forced to emigrate from Armenia (western part), under pressure from Ottoman Turkey, had a great influence on the writer's work. The writer's reflections on the Armenian Genocide are reflected in such works as "The Silent Bell Tower" and "Three Part Liturgy", which was written in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide,held in 1915.

In the post-war period, the Armenian writer composed his most famous works:

• "Road of love".
• "Man in the palm of your hand".
• "With you again".
• "Let there be light".

The above-mentioned poem "The Silent Bell Tower" was the loudest and most famous work of the writer. The plot is based on the life and death of an Armenian composer named Komitos, who shared the terrible tragedy of the genocide with his people from beginning to end. For the country, he forever remained an example of a true folk hero and musician.

Sevak also translated and worked with the works of such Russian writers and poets as Pushkin, Yesenin, Lermontov, Blok and Mayakovsky.

His works can be read in Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Czech and many other languages.

The life of the Armenian writer ended unexpectedly and tragically: in 1971, when he and his wife were returning home from their native village, they were in a car accident and both could not escape.