Major Digital Libraries & Repositories
- National Library of Armenia (NLA): This is the largest repository of Armenian printed heritage. Its digital library includes a vast collection of digitized rare books (1512–1800), early printed books (1901–1920), and contemporary publications available as direct PDF downloads.
- Internet Archive (Robert Bedrosian’s Collection): Scholar Robert Bedrosian has compiled and uploaded hundreds of searchable PDF files, including:
- Classical Literature: Bibliographies and studies of literature from the 5th to the 17th centuries.
- Folklore & Mythology: Extensive collections of Armenian folk tales, fables, and legends.
- Historical Works: Searchable PDFs of ancient Armenian history and literary culture.
- Haybook (Armenian Ebooks): A curated portal that centralizes links to free Armenian digital resources. It provides access to novels, short stories, and poetry in PDF format, specifically focusing on user-friendly and readable digital files.
- Project Gutenberg: Offers classic titles such as Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore, and Classic Traditions in various digital formats, including PDF.
- Fundamental Scientific Library (FLIB): Hosted by the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, this site maintains a massive depository of academic texts and literary works.
- Matenadaran (Institute of Ancient Manuscripts): While primarily a physical museum, it provides digital access to ancient manuscripts and research monographs related to medieval Armenian literature.
- AGBU Armenian Virtual College (AVC): Offers a series of educational ebooks and digital resources for those studying Armenian culture and language.
- Specific Authors: If searching for a specific author (e.g., Hovhannes Tumanyan or Raffi), use search queries like
"Author Name" filetype:pdfor check ArmenianHouse.org, which hosts a wide array of digitized literature. - Language Options: Many repositories, like the Internet Archive, offer both original Armenian texts and English translations in PDF format.
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Bedros Turyan or Turian was born in 1851. He lived in great poverty, and died of consumption in 1872
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2 The most recent general survey of the published Armenian apocryphal literature was that of STONE, «Jewish Apocryphal Literature in the Armenian Church» Le Muséon XCV (1982), pp. 285-309 = M.E. STONE, Selected Studies in the Pseudepigrapha with Special Reference to the Armenian Tradition, Leiden 1991, pp. 3-27, (Studia in Veteris Testamenti
Critics’ Forum Literature Perennially Transnational: Armenian Literature after the Genocide By Myrna Douzjian As a graduate student in Comparative Literature, I recently had the opportunity to present a talk entitled “Post-Genocide Armenian Literature of the Homeland and Diaspora” to students in an Armenian Studies undergraduate seminar at USC.
of Sciences and Humanities, 1982) and Armenian Apocrypha: Relating to Adam and Eve (SVTP 14; Leiden/New York: Brill, 1996). In view of the wealth of still unpublished Armenian apocryphal literature, further sequels can be envisaged. Not all the apocryphal Armenian …
Studies of Armenian Literature (5th-17th Centuries) at Internet Archive, in 109 pdf pages. This is a clickable index for some of Internet Archive's resources. It includes studies of Armenian historical sources, secular medieval poetry, and the works of fabulists, as well as general reference works and bibliographies. Prepared by Robert Bedrosian.
“Women’s Emancipation and Armenian Literature in the Ottoman Empire at the Dawn of the 20th Century” S. Dussap, Mayda. Echoes of Protest, Boston: AIWA Press, p. XV-XXXVII., 2020. Valentina Calzolari. Download PDF. Download Full PDF Package. This paper. A short summary of this paper.
The credit of creating the systematic chronology and history of Armenian ancient and mediaeval literature belongs, however, to renowned literary critic and historian of literature M.Abeghyan, whose “History of Ancient Armenian Literature” in two volumes9 remains a handbook. “It appears that it would be impossible to compose a work with
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The texts are edited, annotated with footnotes, and presented in a format that permits easy comprehension. Literature unveils a rich pageant of works in historical perspective. The varied experiences from the Armenian past come alive, allowing for new understandings and comparisons to literatures of other nations.
Armenian literature one way or another relates to the Genocide2. This was not the case in Soviet Armenia where, with its Sovietiza-tion in December 1920, historical memory, the memory of the Armenian past, especially that of the Genocide of the 1915, was abruptly switched off. The future of the Armenian nation, prescribed by the Soviet rule, was
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