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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
William Golding
In 1983, the famous English writer William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize. He gained literary fame thanks to his novel "Lord of the Flies," which warned of the dangers of fascism. Allegories here give a general idea of the world and of time, and are philosophical in nature.
