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Anna Davtyan | Language through Lessons

by Granish on Feb 22, 2025 • No Comments

The teacher is always the person who needs to be forgiven for temporariness. I thought of this when I was already a teacher. When I was teaching my young students not a specific profession but was explaining the state of things. In a word there is the state of things,...

Poetry

Hovhannes Grigoryan | Fathers’ land

by Granish on Mar 24, 2024 • No Comments

FATHERS’ LAND I sing this song standing, since you are the one, for whose peace one dies without hesitation, since you are the one, for whom one fights without a command, whom one names — one & only, and misses from afar, And cries from longing for you in foreign...

Poetry

Vahan Teryan | She smiled at me

by Granish on Feb 9, 2023 • No Comments

She smiled at me, the Nairian girl with slim waist, The Nairian girl –gloomy-eyed and modest, So bright was the face of the mountain-born, The glance so blazing and artless. And my Nairian sun as if glared also In the northern faraways and colds, As if in my field bloomed...

Criticism

Tatevik Kolarski | Alice Munro’s Short Story “Amundsen”

by Granish on Mar 12, 2022 • No Comments

Alice Munro’s Short Story “Amundsen” and its Translation into Armenian by Anna Davtyan Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer, winner of numerous literary awards including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as “master of the contemporary short story.” Her short story “Amundsen” appeared in The...

Poetry

Naira Hambardzumyan | Poetry for the chosen ones

by Granish on Apr 4, 2021 • No Comments

POETRY FOR THE CHOSEN ONES In the beginning was the Time, Then the Word, then the Sin, then the Fig Leaf, And the again – the Time; and what has not been said still Is roaming in the cave. When God created the world, Created the man, created the...

Short story

Hrant Matevosyan | The Trees

by Granish on Sep 8, 2020 • No Comments

You’re no good, you’re pitiful my child, my son, my firstborn, my hope, my precious, you’re no good, you hold no vengeance. Your grandpa, my papa Ishkhan had a small blood-red horse: it was so small, he says, that wasn’t taken to army and burned with fury whenever any other...

Poetry

Hovhannes Tumanyan | The Reading of the Universe

by Granish on Jun 27, 2020 • No Comments

You who gave me a gaze toward the skies To reach the higher ends, dive in the Sun, You who gave me a mind heavenly and vast To measure the measureless, its awesome gaps afar. You who tied us, took hold of my soul, Instilling in there the endless, its...

Short story

Artyom Grigoryan | Ups and downs

by Granish on Jun 22, 2020 • No Comments

It makes me wonder: while the 6th floor of our building completely had been renovated with beautiful doors and highlighted painted walls, on the 7th there is only one lightbulb, which is probably not working since the collapse of the USSR, and I’m pretty sure that the guy who screwed...

Poetry

Kostandin Yerznkatsi | Others malign me of envy

by Granish on Jun 22, 2020 • No Comments

Others chock-full of envy mean evil down with me For I compose a poetry that is a treasure sweet. They say, ‘How does his tonque have such delicacy, That among us non can compete or withstand that rivalry?’ Deceived by the dark, doomed to be blind In slumber they’ll never...

Short story

Nane Vardanyan | The history of world

by Granish on May 13, 2020 • No Comments

1 Initially there was only Adam. God created him on the sixth day and Adam become the most perfect living organism. He was the best in everything- he was the fastest, the smartest, the most beautiful, and the funniest and most experienced… He was God’s favorite. One day the snake...

Poetry

Eghishe Charents | The starry wanderers

by Granish on Jan 24, 2020 • No Comments

We are two starry wanderers, Two wanderers in rags, That loved the sadness of our souls The dreamy yearning, the astral love, In love with sadness of our souls, Some dreamy yearning, some astral love. And we fall for illusion and dream, Where we drift and wander ceaselessly, Endlessly riding...

Criticism

Lilit Margaryan | Why is Zabel Yessayan an important author who should be taught in Armenian Schools

by Granish on May 9, 2018 • 1 Comment

Zabel Yessayan is one of the most prominent and important writers of Armenian literature of the 20th century, our greatest female writer, who is totally abandoned in Armenia and is widely unknown to the public. Her works are not included in school books, nor have they been subjected to serious...

Novel

Violeta Balian | The Concubine

by Granish on Mar 17, 2018 • 6 Comments

VIOLETA BALIÁN is an Argentine author and translator born in Buenos Aires of an Armenian father and a German mother. She studied History, Archaeology/Anthropology as well as Humanities at San Francisco State University (California) and spent many years in the United States. In 2012 she published her first novel, the...

Short story

Aram Saroyan | NOTES AT SEVENTY

by Granish on Dec 25, 2013 • 9 Comments

At the beginning of Desolation Angels, Jack Kerouac is all alone, a fire lookout on a mountain peak in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by mountain stillness on all sides. A practicing if erratic Buddhist—“I’m the Buddhknown as the quitter,” he quipped once to his friend Gary Snyder—he has an epiphany:...

Poetry

Hovhannes Grigoryan | Never die

by Granish on Aug 23, 2013 • No Comments

“Never die”, appealed my father to me in the deathbed.

Criticism / Poetry

Hasmik Hakobyan | Linguistic realization of modern armenian poetry

by Granish on Aug 19, 2013 • No Comments

The diversity of world orders, the thematic-structural elements,the variety of solution of primary problems make the modern poetry significant. Each type of poetry puts its world order and the language of thinking. The words become conventional signs of reality. So what is the poetic reality? What is the function of...

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David Poghosyan | Delusion

by Granish on Jun 14, 2015 • 1 Comment

The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with heart. Helen Keller Part 1 Revelation My father is a pilot. I’m very connected with him, he...

Criticism

Anna Maria Mattaar | Sun of the twins by Hrachya Saribekyan

by Granish on Feb 11, 2015 • 1 Comment

Sergei Bulgakov: “That life is a supreme reality, it is evident and certain for all those who participate in it. Nevertheless, it is a spiritual life, hidden in the “secret man,” in the “inner chamber” of his heart; in this sense it is a mystery and a sacrament. It is above nature — in other...

Poetry

Nune Levonyan | I love fairy-tales

by Granish on Jan 19, 2015 • 1 Comment

The tree and I get evenly old, but the tree does not make a tragedy of it and each Indian summer does not write poems of defoliation. The tree and I have similarities: we love to dress up and be beautiful to death: but I do not allow common passengers to cool in my shadow....

Essay

Marineh Khachadour | Through the Rainbow

by Granish on Dec 7, 2014 • No Comments

“When you reach the rainbow, you will be transformed into a boy,” my grandmother told me when I was a young girl, and I tried many times. Not because I wanted to become a boy, but because I was determined to experience a miracle, the extraordinary. I stopped trying to reach the rainbow around the...

Poetry

Ghukas Sirunyan | My mother is asleep

by Granish on Nov 25, 2014 • No Comments

MY MOTHER IS ASLEEP My mother is asleep beneath the rows of red pepper, Beside the gourds relishing the sun like grandmothers— In the windy warmth of the autumn leaving the meadow. My mother is asleep beside clemency, worth, and fruit-trees, On the edge of vigor, jealousy, and precarious undertakings, Beside the smoldering hearths, vivacious...

Short story

Diana Hambardzumyan | Poor Cow—Its Belly Is Swollen

by Granish on Nov 25, 2014 • 1 Comment

I saw him for the first time when I was toothless in my mother’s belly. I was all scrunched up, moving around anxiously, and I thought it might be this man with a mustache. I wished that it was me in his place, munching on an apple. Right in my mother’s belly I dreamed that,...

Poetry

Armenuhi Sisyan | Sometimes

by Granish on Oct 6, 2014 • 2 Comments

*** I’m walking on you

Interview

An interview with Elfik Zohrabyan

by Granish on May 3, 2014 • No Comments

While Armenia has been described in a centuries-old poem as ‘the paradise land, the cradle of humankind,’ the Eurasian country – situated just outside the Fertile Crescent and Levant – might appear far enough off the beaten path to suggest a dearth of significant literature or a lack of notable literary figures. However, Armenia stands...

Short story

Hrachya Saribekyan | Eternal engine

by Granish on May 2, 2014 • No Comments

Perpetuum mobile-an imaginary machine that works without loss of energetic resources. Its existence contradicts the First Law of Thermodynamics. By the Law of Energy Conservation, all the attempts of making an eternal engine are condemned to failure. I was turning the pedals, but my bicycle was not moving. I was moving faster and faster, with...

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Anna Davtyan | Language through Lessons

Hovhannes Grigoryan | Fathers’ land

Vahan Teryan | She smiled at me

Tatevik Kolarski | Alice Munro’s Short Story “Amundsen”

Naira Hambardzumyan | Poetry for the chosen ones

Hrant Matevosyan | The Trees

Hovhannes Tumanyan | The Reading of the Universe

Artyom Grigoryan | Ups and downs

Kostandin Yerznkatsi | Others malign me of envy

Nane Vardanyan | The history of world

Eghishe Charents | The starry wanderers

Lilit Margaryan | Why is Zabel Yessayan an important author who should be taught in Armenian Schools

Violeta Balian | The Concubine

Aram Saroyan | NOTES AT SEVENTY

Hovhannes Grigoryan | Never die

Hasmik Hakobyan | Linguistic realization of modern armenian poetry

David Poghosyan | Delusion

Anna Maria Mattaar | Sun of the twins by Hrachya Saribekyan

Nune Levonyan | I love fairy-tales

Marineh Khachadour | Through the Rainbow

Ghukas Sirunyan | My mother is asleep

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