A FEW WORDS TO MY READER — Hrant Matevosyan, Collected Works in Two Volumes, vol. 1. Yerevan: Sovetakan Grogh, 1985, pp. 5–6.
LIFE AND LITERATURE
“IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD…” (An Attempt at a Self-Portrait) — Hrant Matevosyan, Novellas. Yerevan: Nairi, 1990, pp. 3–17. Earlier version: Garun, 1985, no. 2, pp. 22–27.
BEFORE THE BLANK PAGE — Grakan Tert, 14 October 1966.
ON SO-CALLED VILLAGE PROSE — Grakan Tert, 13 September 1968. A response to the well-known debate on “village prose” and “urban prose” in Garun magazine and Grakan Tert.
ON STYLISATION — Yerkir Nairi, 16 June 1995.
I AM MYSELF — Ar, 15 June 1993.
THE WORLD OF THE WORD — Hayatsk Yerevanits, 2002, no. 2, pp. 9–10. A talk broadcast on the Prometheus television channel in 1999, transcribed by the writer’s son, Davit Matevosyan.
“LITERATURE IS NOT ABOUT” — Published from the manuscript. Undated.
THE WRITER AND HIS WORLD
TUMANYAN OF ALL ARMENIANS — Published from the manuscript with minor cuts. Undated.
PERFECTION — Hovhannes Tumanyan, Selected Works, chosen by Hrant Matevosyan with the participation of Felix Meloyan and Albert Isoyan. Yerevan: Hayagitak, Gir series, 2001, pp. 7–10.
GOD’S LIGHT, CALLED BEAUTY — Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, 10 February 2004. Written for the day celebrating Teryan’s poetry.
BLESSED IS THE REGIMENT HE LED — Grakan Tert, 21 January 1997.
IT IS A JOY TO WORK IN THIS LANGUAGE, AWAKENED BY CHARENTS — Grakan Tert, 18 March 1997.
“BOOK OF THE WAY” — A preface to the facsimile reprint of Book of the Way produced in Venice in 1997 through the efforts of Hrant Matevosyan and the diaspora Armenian poet Zulal Kazanjian, on the eve of the centenary of Yeghishe Charents’s birth. The book was not offered for sale; it was distributed to participants in the celebrations and to figures in literature, the arts and culture.
“YEGHISHE CHARENTS: SELECTED WORKS” — Yeghishe Charents, Selected Works. Yerevan: Nairi, 1997. Preface to the book. The collection was compiled and edited by Hrant Matevosyan, Felix Meloyan and Hrachya Tamrazyan.
A TOLLING BELL, ECHOING A CHORUS OF BELLS — Grakan Tert, 20 June 1969.
“A VIEW FROM WITHIN THE PEOPLE” — Published from the manuscript. Read in Goris in 1999 at the celebration of the centenary of Aksel Bakunts’s birth.
“HIS NEGATION GREW INTO AFFIRMATION” — Published from the manuscript. Undated.
A GENTLE, KIND RAIN — Grakan Tert, 20 October 1967. Written on the death of Stepan Zoryan.
STEPAN ZORYAN (On the Eightieth Anniversary of His Birth) — Hayreniki Dzayn, 23 September 1970.
ZORYAN — Hayastan, 30 August 1990. Previously read in 1980 at the Gabriel Sundukyan Drama Theatre during an evening marking the ninetieth anniversary of Stepan Zoryan’s birth. The passages cut at the time have been restored.
HE WAS HIMSELF THE HOMELAND — Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, 16 July 1995. Published with the following note: “Gurgen Mahari died in Palanga in 1969. Hrant Matevosyan wrote these words about Gurgen Mahari in 1970; they are published here for the first time.”
GURGEN MAHARI — Published from the manuscript. Undated.
THE WORLD OF HAKOB MNDZURI — Garun, 1971, no. 7, pp. 54–56.
A CEASELESS, ENDLESS RETURN — Hakob Mndzuri, Works. Sovetakan Grogh, 1986. Afterword to the book.
THE INDOMITABLE, WONDERFUL SAROYAN — Hayreniki Dzayn, 6 December 1978. Written for the seventieth anniversary of William Saroyan’s birth.
THE GREAT APOSTLE OF HUMANITY — Yerekoyan Yerevan, 21 May 1981.
“WILLIAM SAROYAN” — William Saroyan, Stories, Interviews, Essays, Memoirs. Yerevan: Nairi, 1999. Preface to the book. The book was published to mark the ninetieth anniversary of William Saroyan’s birth.
NO ONE MUST KNOW THAT I AM NOT WITH HIM — Sovetakan Hayastan, 29 May 1982. Written on the burial of the urn containing William Saroyan’s ashes in the Komitas Pantheon.
THE PATRIARCH OF THE WHOLE WORLD — Published from the manuscript. Written on the occasion of William Saroyan’s ashes being laid to rest in his native soil.
THE POET — Avangard, 21 June 1974. Written for the sixtieth anniversary of Hamo Sahyan’s birth.
HUMANKIND’S ENVOY — Grakan Tert, 20 April 1984. Written for the seventieth anniversary of Hamo Sahyan’s birth.
A HAVEN FOR ALL LIVING THINGS — Grakan Tert, 14 April 1989. Written for the seventy-fifth anniversary of Hamo Sahyan’s birth.
HIS LIFE-GIVING BREATH — Grakan Tert, 23 July 1993.
HAMO SAHYAN THE GOLDEN-TONGUED (An Unsteady but Unwavering Course) — Hamo Sahyan: The Poet, the Thinker, the Man. Yerevan: Van Aryan, 2001, pp. 21–27.
ENDURING EMPATHY — Hayreniki Dzayn, 4 December 1986. Written for the seventieth anniversary of Maro Margaryan’s birth.
MARO MARGARYAN — Grakan Tert, 15–28 February 1999. Written on the death of Maro Margaryan.
“HE WAS A MAN WE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR” — Published from the manuscript. Written for the seventy-fifth anniversary of Paruyr Sevak’s birth.
PARUYR — Grakan Tert, 23 June 2000.
“HE WAS CALLED TO REVOLUTIONISE THOUGHT” — Published from the manuscript.
THE SUCCESSOR AND THE PREDECESSOR — Areresum, 1996, no. 16. Written in 1977 for the fifty-fifth anniversary of Vahagn Davtyan’s birth.
AND GLORY TO HIM AND HIS GENERATION — Areresum, 1996, no. 16.
THE LIGHT WE CALL CONSCIENCE — Grakan Tert, 1 September 1978. Written for the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s birth.
LITERATURE
REPAYING OUR DEBT THROUGH LITERATURE — Grakan Tert, 1 January 1977.
LET US REPAY WITH SPIRITUAL VALUES — Sovetakan Hayastan, 6 May 1981. Written for the Eighth Congress of the Writers’ Union, held in Yerevan on 6–8 May 1981.
“THIS IS NOT GOOD, LADS, IT IS VERY BAD” — Grakan Tert, 9 February 1995. Written in response to the atmosphere of discord in the Writers’ Union and attempts to split the Union.
FOR THE SAKE OF ARTISTIC THOUGHT — Published from the manuscript.
A BRIDGE TO THE LAND OF LEGENDS — Grakan Tert, 20 June 1980. Written for the eightieth anniversary of Hrachya Kochar’s birth.
VAKHTANG ANANYAN (A Review) — Published from the manuscript. Undated. No collection entitled When I Was Still a Child was subsequently published.
“HE CREATED HIS OWN ARTISTIC REALITY” — Grakan Tert, 9 February 1995. Written for the ninetieth anniversary of Khachik Dashtents’s birth.
SERO KHANZADYAN — Grakan Tert, 1–15 July 1996.
THE WRITER’S CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY — Grakan Tert, 20 June 1977. Written for the sixtieth anniversary of Anahit Sahinyan’s birth.
A PURE HEART, OPEN TO EVERYONE — Grakan Tert, 22 January 1982.
SUREN AGHABABYAN — Grakan Tert, 28 March 1986. Written on the death of Suren Aghababyan.
AN EFFORT SUSTAINED BY FAITH — Grakan Tert, 20 January 1997. Written for the seventy-fifth anniversary of Suren Aghababyan’s birth.
A WAYSTATION ON THE ROAD WE ALL TRAVEL — Published from the manuscript. Undated.
A BOOK ABOUT TUMANYAN — Hayreniki Dzayn, 12 February 1967. A review of Levon Hakhverdyan’s The World of Tumanyan, Yerevan: Hayastan, 1966, 500 pages.
A VIEW OF THE ARMENIAN FUTURE — Sovetakan Hayastan (magazine), 1983, no. 10, pp. 24–25.
THE DEFENDER OF BEAUTY — Grakan Tert, 12 September 1986. Written for the sixtieth anniversary of Hrant Tamrazyan’s birth.
HRANT TAMRAZYAN — Grakan Tert, 1–15 March 2001.
PION HAKOBYAN — Grakan Tert, 1–15 October 2000.
HERE IS ZAHRAD — Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, 15 May 1999. Written as a preface to a cycle of poems celebrating Zahrad’s seventy-fifth birthday.
“A BORN ACADEMICIAN AND LITERARY SCHOLAR” — Yeghitsi Luys, 1999, no. 6.
A SON OF HIS LAND — Avangard, 17 October 1980.
MUSHEGH GALSHOYAN — Grakan Tert, 15–31 December 1998. Written for the sixty-fifth anniversary of Mushegh Galshoyan’s birth.
A CREATIVE PRESENCE — Yerkir Nairi, 22 April 1994.
MANUK MNATSAKANYAN — Grakan Tert, 11 March 1995.
THE POET OF INTENSELY CONCENTRATED TIME — Grakan Tert, 9 June 2000. Written for the sixtieth anniversary of Razmik Davoyan’s birth.
TRUE STORIES IN PRECISE WORDS — Grakan Tert, 19 November 1996. Written for the fiftieth anniversary of Vano Siradeghyan’s birth.
A FEW WORDS — Vano Siradeghyan, Take Your Hand off the Pain. Yerevan: Nairi, 2000. Preface to the book.
OUR SISTER, OUR TRANSLATOR, OUR FRIEND — Grakan Tert, 12 September 1975.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT VASILY BELOV — Vasily Belov, Stories and Novellas. Yerevan: Sovetakan Grogh, 1983. Preface to the book.
“AN ENDLESSLY VAST WORLD” — William Faulkner, Dry September. Yerevan: Apollon, 1991. Preface to the book.
PAINTING
MYSELF, MY HOMELAND, MY ART — Grakan Tert, 6 January 1967.
THE MASTER AND TOILER OF OUR HOUSE — Grakan Tert, 12 May 1972. Written on the death of Martiros Saryan.
HE KNEW HOW TO LOVE (Minas Avetisyan) — Sovetakan Arvest magazine, 1975, no. 6, p. 51.
MOMENTS OF ASCENT — Varuzhan, 12 August 1993.
“A CONTINUAL ACCOUNTING TO THE CULTURE OF THE PRESENT AND THE PAST” — Sovetakan Hayastan magazine, 1986, no. 9, pp. 18–20.
CINEMA
ART MEANS NATIONAL ART — Yerekoyan Yerevan, 13 April 1981.
AN EQUAL MEMBER OF OUR HOUSEHOLD — Film, 14 April 1981.
ONSTAGE AND OFFSTAGE — Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, 4 July 2000. Written on the death of Mher Mkrtchyan.
HENRIK MALYAN — Grakan Tert, 18 May 1988.
ANDREI TARKOVSKY — Published from the manuscript. Undated.
NATIONAL AND PUBLIC LIFE
TO BE — Hayastan, 24 April 1993. Written for Genocide Remembrance Day.
TOMORROW WE WILL LICK ONE ANOTHER’S WOUNDS — Hayastan, 10 July 1992.
VICTORY IS OUR MISSION BEFORE OUR PAST, OUR FUTURE AND ALL HUMANKIND — Artsakh, 1994, nos. 3–4.
TO ALL OF US AND EACH OF US, TO ALL ARMENIANS — Hayastan, 22 November 1994. Written on the founding of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund.
“WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE A HOMELAND” — Kanch, 6 November 2002, no. 34.
WE LIVED HERE — Grakan Tert, 1 May 1995. Written for the eightieth anniversary of the Genocide.
“WE NEED A CONSTITUTION TO TRAVEL THE ROAD AND REACH OUR DESTINATION” — Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, 1 June 1995. Written in connection with the referendum on the draft Constitution.
WE ARE STILL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY — Published from the manuscript.
SOLIDARITY — Grakan Tert, 16–31 March 1999. Written as the preface to Solidarity, a book bringing together the proceedings of the French National Assembly’s debate recognising the Armenian Genocide.
“THE ROAD TO OUR DESTINATION” — Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, 19 September 1996. Written for the Republic of Armenia’s Independence Day.
“I HOPE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT LEAVE THE COUNTRY DESERTED” — Hayastan, 15 February 2000.
YEREVAN IS A HAVEN — Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, 30 December 2000.
“WHEN SLEEP SEEMS LIKE SALVATION” — Published from the manuscript. A transcript of a conversation.
THEY, AWAKENED BY OUR MOTHER’S CALL — Grakan Tert, 2 March 1990.
ANDRANIK OZANYAN — Published from the manuscript.
A MAN WHO BECAME A LEGEND — Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, 23 February 1999. Written for the 120th anniversary of Aramayis Yerznkyan’s birth.
VAZGEN I — Published from the manuscript. Written on the death of Vazgen I.
VIKTOR HAMBARDZUMYAN — Grakan Tert, 16 August 1996. Written on the death of Viktor Hambardzumyan.
“BOTH OUR SAVIOUR AND OUR ENEMY ARE WITHIN US” — Written in response to the crime of 27 October 1999.
A UNIQUE STRUCTURE — Karen Demirchyan. Yerevan: Hayagitak, 2000, pp. 51–52.
TO VAZGEN SARGSYAN — Hayots Ashkharh, 5 March 1999. Written for the fortieth anniversary of Vazgen Sargsyan’s birth.
VAZGEN — Chorrord Ishkhanutyun, 5 March 2001.
HE TURNED HIS LIFE INTO A SONG — Vazgen Sargsyan, A Trial of the Spirit. Yerevan: Hayagitak, 2000, pp. 10–12.