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Ms. Toumani's suggestions for reading are excellent but it's strange (given her surname) that she hasn't mentioned what is probably the most famous Armenian writer of all - Hovanes Toumanian. Toumanian wrote funny but wise fairy tales, mostly about the rural villages in outlying regions of Armenia. It's very hard to read it in the original Armenian if you aren't a native speaker, because much of it is written in the Lori dialect. Fortunately for thos eof us who are NOT native Armenian speakers, Toumanian's stories have been translated into many other languages. Quite a few of his tales are available for free online at the Armenian Embassy in Washington's website ( http://www.armeniaemb.org/); click on the "Kids" section to read some of his "fairy tales".
My personal favorite is still The Foolish Man in which a man sets out to ask God about why he isn't rewarded for his hard work. On his trip he meets other characters who ask him to pass on their questions to God. For example, a hungry wolf asks, "If God created me, then why doesn't he feed me?"
