Lilit Avagyan

Feb 9, 2024 | evnreport.com | Anna Green |Lilit Avagyan

The personal letters of prominent Armenian writer, literary critic and public figure Zabel Yesayan (1878-1943), were collected over many years and later compiled into a book by literary scholar Arpik Avetisyan — my maternal grandmother. The collection of letters (Zabel Yesayan, Letters, Yerevan, 1977) was never really complete as not all of Yesayan’s correspondence held at the Yeghishe Charents Museum of Literature, where my grandmother worked, were included in the volume.

Jan 20, 2024 | medium.com | Lilit Avagyan

There aren’t many things we can say with certainty. However, the undeniable truth is that no child has ever faced a “creative crisis.” When we were little, it took us only 5 seconds to come up with something absurd. Because to do that, one has to be able to thrive in chaos. In adulthood, driven by the desire for stability, we consciously abandon chaos, unknowingly closing off a vast creative resource within ourselves.