Armenian written work is one of the most ancient literatures in the world. The moment of its origin falls on the V century after the creation of the Armenian alphabet (about 405-406). The fifth century is considered the "golden age". The period from the X to the XIV centuries is listed as the period of the Armenian revival. In addition to classical Armenian, literature also developed in the Middle Armenian language.
Medieval literature shared:
- to historical;
- religious;
- prose;
- poetry
- legal.
List of Armenian writers:
- Mesrop Mashtots.
- Grigor Beledyan.
- Eduard Avakyan.
- Violet Grigoryan.
- Gabriel Sundukyan.
- Paruyr Sevak.
Below will be considered each individually literary figure.
Mesrop Mashtots
Thanks to Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian literature was born. He was a scientist studying linguistics, whose merits were invaluable:
- creation of the Armenian alphabet;
- founder of domestic literature and writing;
- According to experts, he was also the progenitor of the Afghan and Georgian alphabets.
Since Mesrop was a purely religious person, he held posts in the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches, as well as worked on the translation of the Bible, studied theology and missionary work.
Grigor Beledyan
One of the greatest Armenian Soviet writers is Grigor Beledyan. He is considered the reformer of the Armenian literature. The range of genre creativity is huge: he is a prose writer, poet, and also a literary critic. In the arsenal of the writer has more than 30 book works.
Despite the already quite old age, Grigor continues to engage in professional activities. So, for his 70th birthday, he immediately demonstrated 2 of his new books.
The reformism of the Armenian writer was that he was able to prove the necessity and usefulness of the Western Armenian language, while he was already prophesied death.
A collection of novels entitled "Returning from the Night" is a unique creation and legacy for the contemporary art of Armenia.
Eduard Avakyan
Eduard Avakyan was engaged not only in writing, but also translated texts:
- poems by Petrarch, Camoens, Shelley, Nekrasov, Pushkin;
- London short stories and novels;
- works of Marshak, Kochevsky, Prishvin, Fraerman, Kvitko, Lear.
In literature, he preferred both prose and poetry. He is also deservedly one of the best children's Armenian writers. There are dozens of books in his arsenal, some of them:
- "Guests of the sun."
- "Magic world".
- "Rainbow".
- "Toad and cake" and others.
Rewards Avakyan:
- 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 such organizations:
- The magazine "The Original."
- "The center of free speech."
- Union of Writers of Armenia (since 1990).
The poetic cycles of "Rose Harema", as well as "Love" are saturated with freshness and novelty of the language, and the letter exudes originality and courage.
Awards of the poetess:
- Komsomol Prize of the Armenian Soviet Republic in 1986.
- The SPA Award, held annually, for a work entitled "I Verily Say."
- "Golden Reed" from 2000, 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 in the capital of Georgia - Tiflis.
An interesting fact: throughout his life, engaged in creativity, he was listed in the public service and reached the rank of general.
In his works, the Armenian writer expressed and tried to convey to the readers the acute social problems of society. His works are a whole historical period of the dramaturgy of Armenia.
Merits of Gabriel Sundukyan:
- portrayed real life, triumphantly affirming critical realism;
- ousted the genre of comedy from the boundaries of a vaudeville household level to a socially generalized one;
- showed the bourgeoisie of the people of Armenia and the intensity of social exacerbations.
In Pepo's work, Sundukyan vividly demonstrates the heroic image of the people.
Many plays were translated into other languages of the world, and some phrases from his works came into life in the form of winged expressions.
Paruyr Sevak
The list of Armenian writers is completed by the poet and literary critic Sevak Paruyr. He is also a doctor of philological sciences 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 (the western part), which was under pressure from the Ottoman Turkey, had a great influence on the writer's work . The writer's thoughts on the Armenian Genocide are reflected in such works as The Silent Bell Tower and The Three-Part Liturgy, which was written in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1915 genocide.
In the postwar period, the Armenian writer composed his most famous works:
- "The road of love."
- "The man in the palm."
- "Again with you."
- "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 genocide with his people from beginning to end. For the country, he forever remained an example of a true national hero and musician.
Sevak also engaged in translation 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 an Armenian writer ended abruptly and tragically: in 1971, when he and his wife were returning home from his native village, they had a car accident and both could not be saved.