Selected Literary Works

Selected Literary Works

Remarkable writers of the 20th century and their most famous works.

The literary paths taken by modern Armenian writers, and their literary achievements

  • Host - Ani Pashayan
Thomas Eliot
30/04/2025

Thomas Eliot

The broadcast is dedicated to a bright representative of English modernism, poet, art critic, art historian, playwright and literary critic, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Eliot who created in a very hard period of the 20th century many valuable works: The Hollow Men, The Waste Land, The Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, etc. Among his theoretic writings, notable are the works The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, and On Poetry and Poets.

 

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William Faulkner
23/04/2025

William Faulkner

The broadcast is dedicated to American great writer and Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner, especially his novel The Sound and the Fury, written in 1929. This was the author's favorite novel, which he described as his “most splendid failure.” Through the fall of the Compson family, the author expresses a deep sympathy for human pain and tragedy.

 

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Federico García Lorca
16/04/2025

Federico García Lorca

The broadcast is dedicated to Spanish writer, poet, playwright Federico García Lorca who created permanent literary values during his very short life. Especially with his Gypsy Ballads he developed the Spanish national poetry, while with his dramaturgical innovations he prompted the development of Spanish national theater.

 

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James Joyce
09/04/2025

James Joyce

The broadcast is dedicated to English writer James Joyce's literary activities and especially his famous novel "Ulysses" that brought worldwide fame to the author.

 

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Conversation with Margarita Vardanyan
02/04/2025

Conversation with Margarita Vardanyan

What does she as a pharmacist think about poetry, and how does she relate to literature and art? Her collection "A Handful of Stardust" presents modern reality and the woman in arts. In modern poetry, she especially distinguishes Avag Yepremyan, Eduard Harents...

 

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The Brazilian Prose of the 1920s-30s
26/03/2025

The Brazilian Prose of the 1920s-30s

The literature created in the 1920s-30s laid the groundwork for the rise of the modern Brazilian novel writing thanks to Lins do Rego, Queiroz, Ramos, Amado, and others. They realistically depicted the lives of laborers, their material and physical bereavements, the atmosphere in the plantations, and the riots of the exploited people...

 

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Conversation with Ashot Hovsepyan
19/03/2025

Conversation with Ashot Hovsepyan

The collection of prose writer and publicist Ashot Hovsepyan "Searching for the Last Year's Snow" fully reflects the 1990s, a hard period for Armenia that left a deep trace in the life of the country. The writer also predicted the vices of today's Armenian reality and brought a whole gallery of interesting characters to literature...

 

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Charles Aznavour
12/03/2025

Charles Aznavour

This episode is dedicated to the poet and writer Charles Aznavour, whose book "Aznavour by Aznavour" is still read with great interest.

 

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Hermann Hesse
05/03/2025

Hermann Hesse

The broadcast is dedicated to famous German writer Hermann Hesse's literary activities and especially to his well-known novel "Steppenwolf."

 

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Conversation with Hasmik Papian
26/02/2025

Conversation with Hasmik Papian

The great singer has a special attitude to the literary text, to literature. It was a great pleasure for her to read Kafka in German. She always has books by Hrant Matevosyan on her table. She also likes modern Armenian writers such as Alis Hovhannisyan, Hovhannes Yeranyan...

 

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Arthur Miller
19/02/2025

Arthur Miller

The outstanding American playwright and prose writer Arthur Miller showed through his plays the origins of the tragedy of the modern human, reaching great generalizations and thus recreating the faith of humans in the future.

 

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Alain Robbe-Grillet
12/02/2025

Alain Robbe-Grillet

The novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer, screenwriter and film director, ideologist of the New Novel concept, member of the French Academy, surprised many readers, but many also did not accept him. That's why there were always heated debates over his works...

 

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Conversation with Narine Avagyan
05/02/2025

Conversation with Narine Avagyan

What is the secret of a writer whose works have many readers? Both adults and children read her collections with love. But how are the sentences born, which after being written do not belong, in some sense, to the author anymore?

 

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Heinrich Böll
29/01/2025

Heinrich Böll

This episode is dedicated to the German writer and Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll, whose novels enriched the German-language literature with new characters and ideas. His most famous novel, "Group Portrait with Lady," brought great fame to the writer thanks to its extraordinariness...

 

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Conversation with Armenuhi Demirchyan
22/01/2025

Conversation with Armenuhi Demirchyan

The famous poet Silva Kaputikyan's centenary is coming soon. Armenuhi Demirchyan, Candidate of Philology, literary critic, Director of the Silva Kaputikyan House-Museum, explains a number of issues related to the anniversary events, to certain episodes of Kaputikyan's life, to the interest in her literary heritage...

 

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Ray Bradbury's
15/01/2025

Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine"

The famous American writer Ray Bradbury wrote his novel “Dandelion Wine” in 1957, remembering his childhood. He turned the summer of 1928 into an interesting canvas of time and space, portraying his childhood home, family, and nature through the image of dandelions and vivifying wine made with them...

 

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Interview with Armen Martirosyan
08/01/2025

Interview with Armen Martirosyan

It is known that we are losing the tradition of buying books. What is our reader today, and what processes will help have more readers?...

 

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1984 by George Orwell
01/01/2025

1984 by George Orwell

The novel “1984” by English writer George Orwell is one of the most popular novels in the world nowadays also. Through this novel, the writer proves what consequences the loss of personality may have for the human being...

 

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Conversation with Anush Alsibekyan
25/12/2024

Conversation with Anush Alsibekyan

Literature and theater — with an inseparable connection, they give birth to drama. However, it turns out plays are written seldom today...

 

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George Orwell
18/12/2024

George Orwell

The novel “Animal Farm” by the English writer and publicist George Orwell is a type of allegorical prose that creates an interesting image of society and of the state through abundant multivoiced characters. It is today one of the most interesting and popular works in the world...

 

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