Here in our library, we have gifts presented to Hamasdegh (Hampartsoum Gelenian) as well as several of his literary works. Hamasdegh was a prolific poet and writer who was known and honored for preserving Western Armenian literature. He started working for the "Hairenik" in 1918, adopting the pen name Hamasdegh . Some of his well-known works are the collections of stories “The Village” and "The Rain" which describe an Armenian village with its unique past and images. Other works include the novel "The White Horseman" and other short stories and poems.