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• PoetryBook of LamentationsՄատեան ողբերգութեանGregory of Narek · 1002A collection of prayers from the year one thousand, the great work of medieval Armenian mysticism.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryԴավթարSayat-Nova · 1852not translated into EnglishEighteenth-century songbook, kept in Tiflis by a minstrel of the court of Georgia.Literature
• NovelWounds of ArmeniaՎերք ՀայաստանիKhachatur Abovian · 1858A novel written in 1841 in the spoken language of Yerevan, about an Armenian uprising during the Russo-Persian war of 1826-1828.Literature
• TheatrePepoՊեպոGabriel Sundukian · 1871A comedy first staged in 1871 in Tiflis, in which an honest fisherman confronts a merchant who has stripped him of his goods, in the mixed language of the city.Literature
• EpicDaredevils of SassounՍասնա ծռերAnonymous · 1874An oral epic in four branches, first recorded in the Mush region and published in 1874.Literature
• NovelHonourable BeggarsՄեծապատիվ մուրացկաններHakob Paronian · 1880A satire of 1880 in which a rich provincial who has come to Constantinople to take a wife sees the literary men of the capital gather around his purse.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe FoolԽենթըRaffi · 1881A novel of the Armenian national awakening, calling on a people divided between two empires to rely on its own strength.Literature
• ChronicleՊանդուխտի կեանքէնMelkon Gurjian · 1888not translated into EnglishLetters from 1888-1892 that brought the migrant workers from the provinces into Armenian literature.Literature
• PoetryAnushԱնուշHovhannes Tumanyan · 1892A narrative poem of 1892 in which a village love is broken against the honour code of the mountain people.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelChaosՔաոսAlexander Shirvanzade · 1898A novel of 1898 in which an Armenian family enriched by the oil of Baku falls apart over a will.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryՀոգերVahan Tekeyan · 1901not translated into EnglishFirst collection, from 1901, written far from Constantinople, and wholly turned towards the intimate.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryԴյուցազնորենSiamanto · 1902not translated into EnglishA first collection of 1902, born of the exile that followed the Hamidian massacres, in which poetry becomes a call to arms.Literature
• PoetryRainbowԾիածանMisak Metsarents · 1907The first of the two collections published in 1907, at the age of twenty-one, by a poet whom tuberculosis carried off the following year.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryՄթնշաղի անուրջներVahan Terian · 1908not translated into EnglishFirst collection, published in 1908, by a Symbolist poet who renewed Eastern Armenian lyric poetry.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelComrade PanchoonieԸնկեր ԲանչունիYervant Odian · 1909A satirical novel that mocks the Armenian revolutionary parties and their professional militants.Literature
• Short storiesVoice of ConscienceԽղճմտանքի ձայներKrikor Zohrab · 1909First collection, from 1909, by a master of the realist short story, attentive to the women and the humble of Constantinople.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeԿարմիր ժամուցArpiar Arpiarian · 1909not translated into EnglishA story from the beginning of the twentieth century that sets the revolt of the Armenian provinces against the caution of the notables of Constantinople.Literature
• PoetryAbu Lala MahariԱբու Լալա ՄահարիAvetik Isahakyan · 1911A philosophical poem in seven suras, in which a Baghdad poet weary of men and their laws sets off into the desert one night.Literature
• NarrativeIn the RuinsԱւերակներուն մէջZabel Yesayan · 1911A testimony published in Constantinople in 1911 on the Adana massacres, which took place two years earlier, in which more than thirty thousand Armenians were killed.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreAncient GodsՀին աստվածներLevon Shant · 1912A drama written in 1909, in which the life of a monastery cut off by the waters falters before the return of the world and of desire.Literature
• PoetryPagan SongsՀեթանոս երգերDaniel Varoujan · 1912A collection of 1912 that sets the body, joy and the ancient gods against the established Christian morality.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaՆամուսHamo Beknazarian · 1926Silent drama of 1926 that puts the patriarchal code of honour of Armenian families on trial.Cinema
• Short storiesԹլկատինցին եւ իր գործըTlkatintsi · 1927not translated into EnglishPosthumous volume of 1927 that brings together the chronicler of the Armenian peasantry of Kharpert, killed in 1915.Literature
• Short storiesThe Dark ValleyՄթնաձորAksel Bakunts · 1927First collection, of 1927, born of the years its author spent as an agronomist in the villages of Zangezur.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryԱնջրպետի մը գրավումըNigoghos Sarafian · 1928not translated into EnglishFirst collection, from 1928, in which a poet of the Parisian exile seeks a homeland in language itself.Literature
• NovelRetreat Without SongՆահանջը առանց երգիShahan Shahnur · 1929A novel of 1929 about the Armenian survivors who came to live in Paris after the genocide.Literature
• NovelRemnantsՄնացորդացHakob Oshakan · 1932Great unfinished novel of 1932-1934 that reconstructs the Armenian world of the Ottoman Empire before 1915.Literature
• PoetryԳիրք ճանապարհիYeghishe Charents · 1933not translated into EnglishA collection of 1933 in which Armenian history is reread under Stalinist censorship, even in an acrostic.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesՆորավէպեր եւ պատմուածքներLevon Pashalian · 1943not translated into EnglishA posthumous collection of realist short stories about Armenian life in the late nineteenth century, between Constantinople and Paris.Literature
• NovelVardanankՎարդանանքDerenik Demirchian · 1943A historical novel written during the war, which goes back to 451 and the Armenian uprising against the Sasanian Empire.Literature
• PoetryՍրտաբաց զրույցSilva Kaputikyan · 1955not translated into EnglishA collection from 1955, published as the Stalin years came to an end, whose title promises an open-hearted conversation.Literature
• CinemaThe Heart SingsՍիրտն է երգումGrigor Melik-Avagyan · 1956A musical melodrama of 1956 about the return home of an Armenian singer from overseas.Cinema
• CinemaPersonally KnownԱնձամբ ճանաչում եմStepan Kevorkov · 1958An action story from 1958 about a Caucasian Bolshevik of a thousand disguises.Cinema
• CinemaԱռաջին սիրո երգըYuri Yerznkyan · 1958A musical melodrama of 1958 about a singer whom early fame draws away from his family.Cinema
• PoetryԱնլռելի զանգակատունParuyr Sevak · 1959not translated into EnglishA narrative poem of 1959 that makes the fate of the great musician that of the Armenian people at the turn of the century and in 1915.Literature
• CinemaNorthern RainbowՀյուսիսային ծիածանArtashes Hay-Artyan · 1961A historical film of 1960 about the Armenian captives of the Russo-Persian war and Griboyedov's mission.Cinema
• NarrativeՄենք ենք, մեր սարերըHrant Matevosyan · 1962not translated into EnglishA short story from 1962, written during the Thaw, in which shepherds stand up to the logic of an administration come from the city.Literature
• Short filmՏժվժիկArman Manaryan · 1962A comic short film of 1961 that satirises charity put on display.Cinema
• CinemaAn Extraordinary AssignmentԱրտակարգ հանձնարարությունErazm Karamyan · 1965A revolutionary adventure film from 1965, the second part of a trilogy devoted to Kamo, the Armenian Bolshevik, shown here at the start of the civil war.Cinema
• Short filmAvdo's CarԱվդոյի մեքենանDmitri Kesayants · 1966A retro comedy from 1966 on the struggle between the old and the new in the Yerevan of the twenties.Cinema
• CinemaHello, That's Me!Բարև, ես եմFrunze Dovlatyan · 1966Chronicle of an Armenian physicist, from the war to the thaw, on a screenplay partly inspired by the life of Artem Alikhanian, founder of the Yerevan physics institute.Cinema
• NovelThe CandidateԹեկնածունZareh Vorpuni · 1967A novel of 1967 that applies the techniques of the nouveau roman to the figure of the genocide survivor.Literature
• CinemaTriangleԵռանկյունիHenrik Malyan · 1967Chronicle of a forge in Leninakan on the eve of the war and during the conflict, seen at a child's eye level.Cinema
• CinemaThe Colour of PomegranatesՆռան գույնըSergei Parajanov · 1969An evocation in tableaux of an eighteenth-century Armenian troubadour, which Soviet censorship had re-cut before letting it circulate.Cinema
• EssaySeven Songs about ArmeniaՅոթ երգ Հայաստանի մասինGevorg Emin · 1974A book of essays of 1974 that runs through the Armenian centuries in seven parts, seven being a sacred number in that country.Literature
• CinemaChaosՔաոսLaert Vagharshyan · 1974Adaptation of Alexander Shirvanzade's novel about a Baku family undone by oil money.Cinema
• Short filmSeasons of the YearՏարվա եղանակներըArtavazd Peleshian · 1975A short essay from 1975 on the shepherds of the Armenian mountains, without speech and without narrative.Cinema
• PoetryA Hundred and One HayrensՀարյուր ու մեկ հայրենNahapet Kuchak · 1976Sixteenth-century quatrains of love and exile, drawn from the tradition of the Armenian troubadours.Literature
• CinemaAutumn SunԱշնան արևBagrat Hovhannisyan · 1977A 1977 adaptation of a short story by Hrant Matevossian: the portrait of an Armenian peasant woman with a difficult character.Cinema
• Short filmԹթենիGennadi Melkonyan · 1980Pastoral comedy of 1980 in a single setting: two neighbouring houses and the garden they share.Cinema
• PoetryՏաղերHovnatan Naghash · 1983not translated into EnglishSongs from the turn of the eighteenth century, on the threshold of the art of the Armenian minstrels.Literature
• CinemaThe Tango of Our ChildhoodՄեր մանկության տանգոնAlbert Mkrtchyan · 1984A 1984 tragicomedy about a broken family in Leninakan in the aftermath of the war.Cinema
• CinemaThe Voice in the WildernessՁայն բարբառոյ...Vigen Chaldranyan · 1991A costume film from 1991 about the wanderings of a fifteenth-century Armenian traveller.Cinema
• CinemaBlack and WhiteՍև-սպիտակTigran Khzmalyan · 1996A 1996 short film about the waiting of the women left behind in the village during the war.Cinema

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