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Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

authors, arranged chronologically.

Classical

Classical Armenian is the literary language of Armenia written during the 5th to 18th centuries. ;5th century Moses of Chorene

Mesrop Mashtots Mesrob or Mesrop ( hy, Մեսրոպ) is an Armenian given name. Mesrob / Mesrop may refer to: * Mesrop Mashtots, also Saint Mesrop, Armenian monk, theologian and linguist. Inventor of the Armenian alphabet ** Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient M ...

— theologian, inventor of the

Armenian alphabet The Armenian alphabet ( hy, Հայոց գրեր, ' or , ') is an alphabetic writing system used to write Armenian. It was developed around 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader. The system originally had ...

Movses Khorenatsi Movses Khorenatsi (ca. 410–490s AD; hy, Մովսէս Խորենացի, , also written as ''Movses Xorenac‘i'' and Moses of Khoren, Moses of Chorene, and Moses Chorenensis in Latin sources) was a prominent Armenian historian from the late a ...

— historian *

Ghazar Parpetsi Ghazar Parpetsi ( hy, Ղազար Փարպեցի, translit=Łazar P῾arpec῾i) was a 5th to 6th century Armenian chronicler and historian. He had close ties with the powerful Mamikonian noble family and is most prominent for writing a history of ...

— historian *

Faustus of Byzantium Faustus of Byzantium (also Faustus the Byzantine, hy, Փաւստոս Բուզանդ, translit=P'awstos Buzand) was an Armenian historian of the 5th century. Faustus' ''History of the Armenians'' (also known as '' Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk) exists ...

— historian *

Agathangelos Agathangelos (in xcl, Ագաթանգեղոս Agatʿangełos, in Greek "bearer of good news" or angel, 5th century AD ) is the pseudonym of the author of a life of the first apostle of Armenia, Gregory the Illuminator, who died about 332. He ...

— historian *

Yeghishe Yeghishe (, , AD 410 – 475; also spelled Eghishe or Ełišē, Latinisation of names, latinized Eliseus) was an Armenians, Armenian historian from the time of late antiquity, best known as the author of ''History of Vardan and the Armenian W ...

— historian *

Koryun Koriun ( hy, Կորիւն, reformed spelling: Կորյուն; also transliterated as ''Koriwn'', ''Koryun'') was the earliest Armenian-language author. Writing in the fifth century, his ''Life of Mashtots'' contains many details about the evangel ...

— historian * Yeznik of Kolb — theologian ;6th century * David Anhaght — philosopher, Neo-Platonist ;7th century *

Anania Shirakatsi Anania Shirakatsi ( hy, Անանիա Շիրակացի, ''Anania Širakac’i'', anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronol ...

— geographer * Sebeos — author of treatise * Hovhan Mamikonyan — author of treatise * Movses Kagankatvatsi — historian, author of the book "History of the World from Aghvan" *

Davtak Kertogh Davtak Kertogh (''Davtak the Poet'') was a 7th-century Armenian poet, the first secular writer in Armenian literature.The Heritage of Armenian Literature: By Agop Jack Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian, Wayne State ...

— poet *

Komitas Aghtsetsi Komitas I Aghtsetsi ( hy, Կոմիտաս Ա Աղցեցի) or Komitas I of Aghdznik was a Catholicos of Armenia and Supreme Patriarch as well as the bishop of Taron (historic Armenia), Taron from 615 until his death in 628. He is known also as K ...

— author of religious poetry ;8th century * Sahakdukht — hymnographer and poet *

Khosrovidukht Khosrovidukht ( hy, Խոսրովիդուխտ, ; ) was an Armenian hymnographer and poet who lived during the early 8th century. After her slightly earlier contemporary Sahakdukht, she is the first known woman of Armenian literature and music, a ...

— hymnographer and poet * Ghevond — historian, author of "History of the Caliphs" ;9th century Lazarian Gospel

Tovma Artsruni Tovma Artsruni ( hy, Թովմա Արծրունի; also known in English-language historiography as Thomas Artsruni; precise birth date and date of death unknown) was a ninth-century to tenth-century Armenian historian and author of the ''History o ...

— historian *

Esayi Abu-Muse Esayi Abu-Musa ( or ; in Arabic sources: ''Isa ibn-Istifanus'') was an Armenian prince of southern Artsakh who ruled over a significant part of Arran (called Ałuankʻ in Armenian sources) in the mid-9th century and is considered the founder of th ...

— hymnographer ;10th century * Hovhanes Draskhanakertsi — historian * Ukhtanes — historian *

Movses Kaghankatvatsi Movses Kaghankatvatsi ( hy, Մովսէս Կաղանկատուացի ''Movses Kaġankatvac’i''), or Movses Daskhurantsi ( ''Movses Dasxuranc’i'') is the reputed author (or authors) of a tenth-century Classical Armenian historiographical work on C ...

— historian * Movses Daskhuranetsi — historian * Anania Mokatsi — author of treatise ;11th century Grigor Narekatsi 1

* Grigor Narekatsi — poet * Stepanos Taronatsi — historian *

Aristakes Lastivertsi Aristakes Lastivertsi (; 1002 – 1080) was a medieval Armenian historian and chronicler. The author of many works, Aristakes' most valuable contribution in the field of the historiography was his ''History: About the Sufferings Visited Upon ...

— historian * Mateos Urhaetsi — historian *

Grigor Magistros Grigor Magistros ( hy, Գրիգոր Մագիստրոս; "Gregory the ''magistros''"; ca. 990–1058) was an Armenian prince, linguist, scholar and public functionary. A layman of the princely Pahlavuni family that claimed descent from the dyn ...

— author ;12th century * Samuel Anetsi — historian * Arysdaghes — author *

Mkhitar Gosh Mkhitar Gosh ( hy, Մխիթար Գոշ; 1130–1213) or Mkhitar the Thinbearded was an Armenian scholar, writer, public figure, thinker, and priest. He was one of the representatives of the Armenian Renaissance. Biography He was born in the city ...

— historian, author * Khachatur of Taron — poet *

Nerses Lambronatsi Saint Nerses of Lambron (, Nerses Lambronatsi) (1153–1198) was the Archbishop of Tarsus in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia who is remembered as one of the most significant figures in Armenian literature and ecclesiastical history. Life Nerses ...

— poet *

Nerses Shnorhali Nerses IV the Gracious (; also Nerses Shnorhali, Nerses of Kla or Saint Nerses the Graceful; 1102 – 13 August 1173) was Catholicos of Armenia from 1166 to 1173. A more precise translation of his epithet ''Shnorhali'' is "filled with Grace". He ...

— poet ;13th century *

Kirakos Gandzaketsi Kirakos Gandzaketsi (; c. 1200/1202–1271) was an Armenian historian of the 13th century S. Peter Cowe. Kirakos Ganjakec'i or Arewelc'i // Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History / Edited by David Thomas & Alex Mallet. — BRILL, 2 ...

— historian *

Stepanos Orbelyan Stepanos Orbelian ( hy, Ստեփանոս Օրբելեան, originally spelled hy, Ստեփաննոս, translit=Stepʻannos, label=none; – 1303) was a thirteenth-century Armenian historian and the metropolitan bishop of the province of Syu ...

— historian *

Smbat Sparapet Sempad the Constable ( hy, Սմբատ Սպարապետ, Սմբատ Գունդստաբլ, translit=Smbat Sparapet, Smbat Gúndestabl) (1208–1276) (also Smpad and Smbat) was a noble in Cilician Armenia, an older brother of King Hetoum I. He was an ...

— historian *

Vardan Areveltsi Vardan ( hy, Վարդան; Vartan in Western Armenian transliteration, pronounced in both Eastern and Western Armenian), Varden ( ka, ვარდენ) in Georgian, is an Armenian name of Middle Persian origin (from Mid. Pers. Wardā), popu ...

— historian, author * Frik — poet *

Vardan Aigektsi Vardan Aygektsi or Vardan of Aygek ( hy, Վարդան Այգեկցի, died 1250) was an Armenian monk. Among his works is ''his Fables and a Geography'', both of which have been mistakenly attributed by some to Vardan Areveltsi. Aygektsi was bo ...

— writer of fables *

Hovhannes Erznkatsi Hovhannes Erznkatsi ( hy, Յովհաննէս Երզնկացի — John of Erznka or Erzinjan) ( 1230– 1293) was an Armenian scholar and philosopher. He was nicknamed Blouz, probably because of his short stature. The little that has reached us of ...

— poet * Hethum — historian * Grigor Aknertsi — historian ;14th century Commentary to David's psalms - portrait of Grigor Tatevatsi 1449

* Grigor Tatevatsi — philosopher and theologian * Hayton — historian * Nerses Balients — historian ;15th century * Tovma Metsopetsi — historian * Hovhannes Tlkurantsi — poet * Mkrtich Naghash — poet ;16th century * Nahapet Kuchak — poet ;17th century * Martiros of Crimea — writer, poet, historian * Arakel Davrijetsi — historian *

Naghash Hovnatan Naghash Hovnatan ( hy, Նաղաշ Հովնաթան; 1661, Shorot, Nakhijevan, Safavid Iran – 1722, Shorot) was an Armenian poet, '' ashugh'', painter, and founder of the Hovnatanian artistic family. He is considered the founder of the new Ar ...

— poet * Yovanisik Caretsi — writer ;18th century *

Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova ( Armenian: Սայեաթ-Նովայ ( сlassical), Սայաթ-Նովա ( reformed); ka, საიათნოვა; ; ; born Harutyun Sayatyan; 14 June 1712 – 22 September 1795) was an Armenian poet, musician and ''ashugh'', w ...

— poet *

Mikayel Chamchian Mikayel Chamchian)․ ( hy, Միքայէլ Չամչեան, 4 December 1738 – 30 November 1823), known also in English as Michael Chamich, was an Armenian Mekhitarist monk, historian, grammarian and theologian. He is best known for writing a c ...

— historian * Abraham Yerevantsi — historian * Abraham Kretatsi — historian * Baghdasar Dpir — poet

Modern

Western Armenian

* Iskander Abcarius (1826–1885) * Mkrtich Beshiktashlian (1828–1868) * Yuhanna Abcarius (1832–1886) * Mkrtich Achemian (1838–1917) *

Ghevont Alishan __NOTOC__ Ghevont Alishan () (1820-1901; also spelled Ghevond Alishan, or Leonzio Alishan in Italian or Léonce Alichan in French) was an ordained Armenian Catholic priest, historian and a poet. He was awarded by the Legion of Honour of the Frenc ...

(1820–1901) * Yervant Aghaton (1860–1935) * Hagop Baronian (1843–1891) * Nshan Beshiktashlian (1898–1972) * Reteos Berberian (1848–1907) * Mari Beyleryan (1877–1915) * Smpad Piurad (1862–1915) *

Erukhan Yervant Srmakeshkhanlian, ( hy, Երուանդ Սրմաքէշխանլեան; 1870 – 1915) known by his pen name Erukhan ( hy, Երուխան) or Yerukhan, was an Armenian writer of late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was killed during the Arm ...

(1870–1915) * Melkon Giurdjian (1859–1915) * Hamastegh (1895–1966) *

Rober Haddeciyan Rober Haddeciyan (also spelled and pronounced as Haddedjian) ( hy, Ռոպէր Հատտէճեան, born January 26, 1926 in Istanbul, Turkey), also known as Rober Haddeler, is an Armenian writer, playwright, and since 1967 editor-in-chief of '' Marm ...

(born 1926) *

Ardashes Harutunian Ardashes Harutiunian (Արտաշէս Յարութիւնեան, also used pen-names ''Manishak, Ban, Shahen-Garo and Garo'', 1873, Malkara, near Rodosto (now Tekirdağ), Ottoman Empire – 16 August 1915) was an Ottoman Armenian poet, a self-e ...

(1873–1915) *

Hovhannes Hintliyan Hovhannes Hintliyan ( hy, Յովհաննէս Հինդլիեան, Üsküdar, Ottoman Empire, 1866 – Istanbul, March 16, 1950) was an Armenian teacher, pedagogue, publisher, and educator. He was the founder of Nor Tbrots (New School), a presti ...

(1866–1955) * Hovhannes Hisarian (1826–1917) * Diran Kelekian (1862–1915) * Zaruhi Kalemkaryan (1871–1971) * Voskan Martikian (1867–1947) * Vahan Malezian (1871–1966) * Arpiar Arpiarian (1851–1908) * Misak Metsarents (1886–1908) * Hrand Nazariantz (1886–1962) *

Krikor Odian Krikor Odian ( hy, Գրիգոր Օտեան, December 9, 1834, Constantinople (now Istanbul), Ottoman Empire - August 6, 1887, Paris, France) was an Ottoman Armenian jurist, politician, and writer. He was a key figure in the establishment of the Ar ...

(1834–1887) *

Yervant Odian Yervant Odian ( hy, Երուանդ Օտեան or Երվանդ Օտյան; 19 September 1869 – 1926) was an Ottoman Armenian satirist, journalist and playwright. He is regarded as one of the most influential Armenian satirists, along with his ...

(1869–1926) * Hagop Oshagan (1883–1948) * Kegham Parseghian (1883–1915) * Levon Pashalian (1868–1943) *

Ruben Sevak Rupen Chilingiryan (Sevag) (Ռուբէն Յովհաննէսի Չիլինկիրեան (Սեւակ), February 28, 1886, Silivri, Ottoman Empire – August 26, 1915, Çankırı, Ottoman Empire) was an Armenian poet, prose-writer, and doctor.Grego ...

(1885–1915) * Levon Shant (1869–1951) * Siamanto (1878–1915) * Harutiun Svadjian (1831–1874) *

Vahan Tekeyan Vahan Tekeyan ( hy, Վահան Թէքէեան (January 21, 1878, Constantinople - April 4, 1945, Cairo) was an Armenian poet and public activist. In his lifetime he was the most famous poet of the Armenian diaspora, and he remains a significant sy ...

(1878–1945) * Teotig (1873–1928) * Tovmas Terzian (1840–1909) *

Bedros Tourian Bedros Tourian ( Armenian: in TAO Պետրոս Դուրեան, in RAO Պետրոս Դուրյան) (1851–1872) was a Western Armenian poet, playwright and actor. Biography Bedros Tourian (alternate spelling: Petros Duryan) was born to a pov ...

(1851–1872) * Karapet Utudjian (1803–1904) * Hovhannes Vahanian (1832–1891) *

Daniel Varujan Daniel Varoujan ( hy, Դանիէլ Վարուժան, 20 April 188426 August 1915) was an Armenian poet of the early 20th century. At the age of 31, when he was reaching international stature, he was deported and murdered by the Young Turk gover ...

(1884–1915) *

Zabel Yesayan Zabel Yesayan (Armenian: Զապէլ Եսայեան; 4 February 1878 – 1943) was a prominent figure in the Armenian academic and political community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zabel Yesayan's books, articles, and s ...

(1878–1943) *

Zahrad Zareh Yaldizciyan (10 May 192420 February 2007), Զարէհ Եալտըզճեան, better known by his pen name Zahrad ( hy, Զահրատ), was a poet who lived in Turkey and wrote poems in the Armenian language. Biography Of Armenian descent, Za ...

(1924–2007) *

Tlgadintsi Tlgadintsi or Tlkatintsi ( hy, Թլկատինցի), Hovhannes Harutiunian ( hy, Յովհաննես Յարութիւնեան, 1860, Tlkatin vil ...

(1860–1915) * Armen Dorian (1892–1915) * Rupen Zartarian (1874–1915) * Yervant Gobelyan (1923–2010) Simon Simonian

;Diaspora * Arshag Chobanian (1872–1954) *

Louise Aslanian Louise Aslanian (pseudonym ''LAS''; french: Louise Aslanian, Lass, hy, Լուիզա Ասլանյան; 5 May 1904 – 30 January 1945) was a French-Armenian communist and anti-fascist activist, writer, novelist, poet and a prominent figure in ...

(1906–1945) * Shahan Shahnour (1903–1974) *

Missak Manouchian Missak Manouchian (Western hy, Միսաք Մանուշեան; , 1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist. An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925. ...

(1906–1944) * Simon Simonian (1914–1986) *

Antranig Dzarugian Antranig Dzarugian (Անդրանիկ Ծառուկեան; 1913 – 1989 in Paris) was an influential diasporan Armenian writer, poet, educator, and journalist in the 20th century. Antranig Dzarugian (transliterated in Eastern Armenian as Andrani ...

(1913–1989) *

Vahe Vahian Vahe-Vahian (''Armenian'': Վահէ-Վահեան), born Sarkis Abdalian (22 December 1908, Gürün Turkey, died in 1998, Beirut, Lebanon), was an Armenian poet, writer, editor, pedagogue and orator. Personal life Vahe-Vahian was the fifth son ...

(1908–1998) * Tovmas Terzian (1840–1909) *

Gostan Zarian Gostan, Constant, or Kostan Zarian ( hy, Կոստան Զարեան; February 2, 1885 – December 11, 1969) was an Armenian writer who produced short lyric poems, long narrative poems of an epic cast, manifestos, essays, travel impressions, criti ...

(1885–1969) * Nigoghos Sarafian (1905–1973) * Harut Sassounian (born 1950) * Zareh Vorpuni (1902–1980) *

Moushegh Ishkhan Moushegh Ishkhan ( hy, Մուշեղ Իշխան; born as ''Jenderejian'', 1913 Sivrihisar - 12 June 1990 Beirut) was an Armenian Diasporan poet, writer and educator. Life and work Moushegh Ishkhan was born in 1913 in Sivrihisar, a village near Anka ...

(1913–1990) * Vahé Oshagan (1922–2000) *

Kevork Ajemian Kevork Vartani Ajemian (''Adjemian'') (in Armenian Գևորգ Աճեմյան, in Western Armenian Գէորգ Աճեմեան) (May 23, 1932 – December 27, 1998) was a prominent Lebanese-Armenian writer, journalist, novelist, theorist and public ac ...

(1932–1998) *

Bedros Hadjian Bedrós Hadjian ( hy, Պետրոս Հաճեան; January 24, 1933 in Jarabulus, Syria – September 3, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Buenos Aires-based Syrian Armenian writer, educator and journalist. In 1954 he became the headteacher ...

(1933–2012) * Marie Rose Abousefian (born 1944) *

Krikor Beledian Krikor Beledian ( hy, Գրիգոր Պըլտեան, born Beirut, 1945) is a prolific Armenian poet, novelist, and literary critic living in France. After graduating from the Armenian Lyceum Nshan Palandjian of Beirut, he moved to Paris in 1967, ...

(born 1945) * Varand (born 1954) * Tatev Chakhian (born 1992) Abovianportrait

Eastern Armenian

;Tsarist era *

Harutyun Alamdaryan Harutyun (Gevork) Manuki Alamdaryan ( hy, Հարություն (Գևորգ) Մանուկի Ալամդարյան) 1795, Astrakhan - 1834, Nor Nakhijevan) was an Armenian poet and teacher. Biography In 1813 he was invited to Moscow where he beca ...

(1795–1834) *

Khachatur Abovian Khachatur Abovian ( hy, Խաչատուր Աբովյան, Khach’atur Abovyan; (disappeared)) was an Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century who mysteriously vanished in 1848 and was eventually presumed dead. He was ...

(1809–1848) *

Gabriel Sundukian Gabriel Sundukian ( hy, Գաբրիել Սունդուկյան; 11 July 1825 – 29 March 1912) was an Armenian writer and playwright, the founder of modern Armenian drama.

(1825–1912) *

Ghazaros Aghayan Ghazaros (Lazarus) Aghayan ( hy, Ղազարոս Աղայեան; ) was an Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure. Biography Aghayan was born in Bolnisi village (also known as Bolnis-Khachen), Tiflis Governor ...

(1840–1911) *

Arakel Babakhanian Arakel Grigori Babakhanian ( hy, Առաքել Գրիգորի Բաբախանյան; – 14 November 1932), commonly known by his pen name Leo ( hy, Լեո), was an Armenian historian, writer, critic and professor of Yerevan State University. ...

(1860–1932) *

Muratsan Grigor Ter-Hovhannisian ( hy, Գրիգոր Տեր-Հովհաննիսյան; December 1, 1854 – September 12, 1908), better known as Muratsan ( hy, Մուրացան), was a prolific Armenian writer, known best for writing '' Gevorg Marzpetuni'' ( ...

(1854–1908) * Mikael Nalbandian (1829–1866) * Nar-Dos (1867–1933) *

Raphael Patkanian Raphael Patkanian ( hy, Ռափայել Պատկանյան, also known as Kamar Katiba; 20 November 1830 – 3 September 1892) was one of the most popular Armenian poets.The Survey - Page 259 by Survey Associates Biography Patkanian was born i ...

(1830–1892) * Pertch Proshian (1837–1907) *

Raffi Raffi Cavoukian, ( hy, Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), known professionally by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author of Armenian descent born in Egypt, best known for his children's music. He developed his career as a " ...

(1835–1888) * Alexander Shirvanzade (1858–1935) * Alexander Tsaturyan (1865–1917) * Tserents (1822–1888) *

Hovhannes Tumanyan Hovhannes Tumanyan ( hy, Հովհաննես Թումանյան, classical spelling: Յովհաննէս Թումանեան, – March 23, 1923) was an Armenian poet, writer, translator, and literary and public activist. He is the nationa ...

(1869–1923) *

Vahan Terian Vahan Terian (; February 9, 1885 – January 7, 1920) was an Armenian poet, lyrist and public activist. He is known for his sorrowful, romantic poems, the most famous of which are still read and sung in their musical versions. Biography ...

(1885–1920) Yeghishe Charents Armenian poet

;Soviet era * Gevorg Abajian (1920–2002) * Vahram Alazan (1903–1966) *

Levon Ananyan , image = Levon Ananyan.jpg , image_size = , alt = , caption = Levon Ananyan, Yerevan, 2010 , birth_name = , birth_date = , birth_p ...

(born 1946) *

Vakhtang Ananyan Vakhtang Stepani Ananyan ( hy, Վախթանգ Ստեփանի Անանյան, translit=Vakht’ang Step’ani Ananyan; 26 July 1905 – 4 March 1980) was an Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country i ...

(1905–1980) * Zhirayr Ananyan (1934–2004) *

Axel Bakunts Aksel (Axel) Bakunts ( hy, Ակսել Բակունց, Alexander Stepani Tevosyan; , 1899 – July 8, 1937) was an Armenian prose writer, film-writer, translator and public activist. Life and career Bakunts was born 1899 in Goris in Armenia a ...

(1899–1937) *

Zori Balayan Zori (), also rendered as zōri ( ja, , ), are thonged Japanese sandals made of rice straw, cloth, lacquered wood, leather, rubber, or—most commonly and informally—synthetic materials. They are a slip-on descendant of the tied-on sandal. ...

(born 1935) *

Gurgen Boryan Gurgen Mikayeli Boryan ( hy, Գուրգեն Միքայելի Բորյան; 20 June 1915 – 15 April 1971), was an Armenian poet and playwright. Biography Boryan was born in Shusha. He started his career of writer in 1930, and published hi ...

(1915–1971) * Arpenik Charents (1932–2008) *

Yeghishe Charents Yeghishe Charents (; March 13, 1897 – November 27, 1937) was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist. Charents' literary subject matter ranged from his experiences in the First World War, socialist revolution, and frequently Armenia an ...

(1897–1937) *

Khachik Dashtents Khachik Dashtents ( hy, Խաչիկ Դաշտենց; ''Khachik Tonoyi Tonoyan'', May 25, 1910 – March 9, 1974) was an ethnic Armenian Soviet writer, poet and translator.classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA Wo ...

(1910–1974) *

Razmik Davoyan Razmik Davoyan ( hy, Ռազմիկ Դավոյան; 3 July 1940 – 11 January 2022) was an Armenian poet. Life and career Davoyan was born in Mets Parni, Spitak rayon, Armenian SSR on 3 July 1940. He studied philology and history at Armenian S ...

(born 1940) *

Vahagn Davtyan Vahagn Davtyan () (August 15, 1922, Arabkir, Turkey – February 21, 1996, Yerevan) was an Armenian poet, translator, publicist and public activist. Biography He was born in the town of Arapgir in Turkey. Davtyan was a Renowned activist of c ...

(1922–1996) *

Derenik Demirchian Derenik Karapeti Demirchian ( hy, Դերենիկ Կարապետի Դեմիրճյան) was a Soviet and Armenian writer, novelist, poet, translator and playwright. Biography Demirchian was born on February 18, 1877, in Akhalkalaki in what is no ...

(1877–1956) * Henrik Edoyan (born 1940) *

Gevorg Emin Gevorg Emin (, September 30, 1919 – June 11, 1998) was an Armenian poet, essayist, and translator. Biography Emin, the son of a school teacher, was born in the town of Ashtarak. In 1927, his family moved to Yerevan, the capital of Sovie ...

(1918–1998) * Zhora Harutyunyan (1928–2002) * Artashes Kalantarian (1931–1991) * Silva Kaputikyan (1919–2006) * Hakob Karapents (1925–1994) * Zorayr Khalapyan (1933–2008) *

Sero Khanzadyan Sero Nikolayi Khanzadyan ( hy, Սերո Նիկոլայի Խանզադյան, , 1915 – June 26, 1998) was an Armenian writer and novelist. Early life and education Sero Khanzadyan was born in 1915 to a peasant family in the town of Goris locate ...

(1916–1998) *

Avetik Isahakyan Avetik Sahak Isahakyan ( hy, Ավետիք Սահակ Իսահակյան; October 30, 1875 – October 17, 1957) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer and public activist. Biography Isahakyan was born in Alexandropol in 1875. He was edu ...

(1875–1957) *

Gurgen Mahari Gurgen Mahari (''Gurgen Grigori Ajemian''; , 1903 in Van – June 17, 1969 in Yerevan) was an Armenian writer and poet. His most significant works include the semi-autobiographical novella '' Barbed Wires in Blossom'' (1968) and the novel '' ...

(1903–1969) * Metakse (1926–2014) * David Mouradian (born 1951) * Vardges Petrosyan (1932–1994) * Hamo Sahyan (1914–1993) * Anahit Sahinyan (1917–2010) * Ashot Sahratyan (1936–2015) * Paruyr Sevak (1924–1971) *

Hovhannes Shiraz Hovhannes Shiraz ( hy, Հովհաննես Շիրազ) (April 27, 1914 – March 14, 1984) was an Armenian poet. Biography Shiraz was born Onik Tadevosi Karapetyan in the city of Alexandropol, then part of the Russian Empire (now Gyumri, Arme ...

(1915–1984) *

Vano Siradeghyan Vano Smbati Siradeghyan ( hy, Վանո Սմբատի Սիրադեղյան; November 13, 1946 – October 15, 2021) was an Armenian politician and writer. He held several high-ranked positions in the 1990s. He served as Minister of Internal Affai ...

(born 1946) *

Hmayak Siras Hmayak Siras (born Hmayak Sahaki Voskanian ( hy, Հմայակ Սահակի Ոսկանյան); 15 February 1902 – 16 August 1983) was an Armenians, Armenian writer, editor, and translator. He is regarded as a significant figure in the developme ...

(1902–1983) *

Vahan Totovents Vahan Hovhannesi Totovents ( hy, Վահան Հովհաննեսի Թոթովենց; September 1, 1889 – July 18, 1938) was an Armenian writer, poet and public activist. Biography Vahan Totovents was born on July 17, 1893 in the town of Mezre (no ...

(1889–1937) *

Seda Vermisheva Seda Vermisheva ( hy, Սեդա Վերմիշևա; russian: Сэда Константиновна Вермишева, 9 October 1932 – 18 February 2020) was an Armenian-Russian poet, economist and public activist. Biography From her father's s ...

(1932–2020) * Hovik Vardoumian (born 1940) * Alvard Petrossyan (born 1946) *

Stepan Zoryan Stepan Yeghiayi Zoryan ( hy, Ստեփան Եղիայի Զորյան, born Stepan Yeghiayi Arakelyan; September 16, 1890 – October 14, 1967) was a Soviet Armenian writer. Biography Stepan Zoryan (real surname Arakelyan) was born in 1890 to ...

(1889–1967) *

Hrant Matevosyan Hrant Ignati Matevosyan ( hy, Հրանտ Իգնատի Մաթևոսյան, 12 February 1935 - 19 December 2002) was an Armenian writer and screenwriter. By the time of his death he was considered Armenia's "most prominent and accomplished contempora ...

(1935–2002) * Ruben Hovsepyan (1939–2016) *

Hayrapet Hayrapetyan Hayrapet Sardari Hayrapetyan (December 1, 1874, Tanakert, Ordubad District, Nakhichevan – March 7, 1962, Yerevan) was an Armenian poet, children's writer, translator, Honored Teacher of the USSR (1950), member of the Union of Soviet Writers (19 ...

(1874–1962) * Nairi Zarian (1900–1969) Sipan_Shiraz

;Independence era * Levon Khechoyan (1955–2014) *

Sipan Shiraz Sipan Shiraz ( hy, Սիփան Շիրազ; June 25, 1967 – April 15, 1997) was an Armenian poet, sculptor and painter. Biography Born Sipan Hovhannesi Karapetyan, he was the son of Armenian poet Hovhannes Shiraz and his second wife, Shushanik. H ...

(1967–1997) * Hovik Vardoumian (born 1940) *

Artem Harutyunyan Artem Harutyunyan ( hy, Արտեմ Հարությունյան, born September 19, 1945 in Stepanakert) is an Armenians, Armenian writer, translator, critic, Doctor of Philology, Professor, member of Writers Union of Armenia, Biography Artem Haru ...

(born 1945) * Ruben Hakhverdyan (born 1950) * Armen Shekoyan (1953–2021) * Vahram Martirosyan (born 1959) * Marine Petrossian (born 1960) * Vahram Sahakian (born 1964) * Anush Aslibekyan (born 1981) * Aram Pachyan (born 1983)

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