Special for the Armenian Weekly Zareh Vorpouni was a lone ranger. In a corpus that spanned genre and era, he embodied the new, the experimental, and the transgressive in Western Armenian fiction in a way […]
By Siran Seza The following story was written by Siran Seza in April 1946. Seza was the penname of Siranoush Zarifian, a Lebanese-Armenian writer born in Constantinople in 1903. She is best known for founding […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly By Missak Vassilian Translated by Jennifer Manoukian The following is the account of a 16-year-old Armenian boy’s unexpected encounter with Djemal Pasha, a member of the the Ittihadist triumvirate of […]
Translated by Jennifer Manoukian The following is a translation of an article by Srpouhi Dussap, published in August 1882. Srpouhi Dussap (née Vahanian) was the first Armenian woman novelist and the first Armenian writer—male or […]
Translated by Jennifer Manoukian The following passages are taken from Antranig Dzarougian’s 1980 memoir, Ethereal Aleppo (Երազային Հալէպը). One of the foremost writers and editors in the Armenian Diaspora, Dzarougian lived and worked in the […]
The following is an excerpt from Amid the Ruins (1911), writer Zabel Yessayan’s account of the aftermath of the 1909 massacres in Cilicia. It is translated to English by Jennifer Manoukian. Towards Cilicia The steamboat […]
This story by Krikor Zohrab was originally published in Massis on May 20th 1900 and later compiled in Krikor Zohrab’s collection of short stories, Կեանքը ինչպէս որ է [Life as it is] in 1911. It […]
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