Armenian letters and 1915

At the beginning of the twentieth century Armenian letters in Constantinople were in full renewal: reviews, realist novels, modern poetry. On 24 April 1915 the intellectuals of the city were arrested, and that generation vanished almost entirely, among them the poet Siamanto and the short story writer Grigor Zohrab, a deputy in the Ottoman parliament. Arpiar Arpiarian had already been murdered in 1908. The survivors would write from Paris, Beirut or America, and Charents died in Soviet prisons in 1937.

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• ChronicleՊանդուխտի կեանքէնMelkon Gurjian · 1888not translated into EnglishLetters from 1888-1892 that brought the migrant workers from the provinces into Armenian literature.Literature
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• NovelThe CandidateԹեկնածունZareh Vorpuni · 1967A novel of 1967 that applies the techniques of the nouveau roman to the figure of the genocide survivor.Literature