The Hrant Matevossian Cultural Foundation was established to preserve, study, and share the writer’s legacy and to carry it forward within contemporary cultural life.
The Foundation has been led by Davit Matevossian since 2003. His work in culture, cinema, translation, and public life has shaped its principal areas of activity: literary heritage, publishing, translation, film, education, and responsibility towards nature and the homeland.
At the heart of the Foundation’s work is the preservation and wider appreciation of Hrant Matevossian’s creative world through books, theatre, images, the spoken word, and educational programmes. Its publishing, translation, and public initiatives seek to bring the writer’s voice to new readers, including audiences in other languages.
An essential part of the Foundation’s work is the idea of taking responsibility for cultural heritage. From this perspective, Hrant Matevossian’s literary legacy is an enduring commitment expressed through books, words, theatre, images, education, and cultural practice.
In this context, the connection with Ahnidzor and the wider cultural landscape of Motkor—Matevossian’s native region—is especially important. The Motkor Development Initiative, conceived in the early 2000s, highlights the bond between the writer’s legacy and the land, the village and its people, nature, and the care of place.
This way of thinking is continued by Pakhra, a non-governmental organisation led by Davit Matevossian and dedicated to nature conservation, science education, and fostering a caring and responsible attitude towards the environment.
Over the years, a space for sustained cultural work has grown around the Foundation, keeping Hrant Matevossian’s voice alive as a living legacy. His work is read, staged, translated, discussed, and passed on to new generations. For the Foundation, Matevossian’s world is more than a body of literary texts: it is also a story of the opportunity—and responsibility—to restore the bonds between people and nature, memory and land, culture and life.