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Khachik Dashtents (Armenian: Խաչիկ Դաշտենց; Khachik Tonoyi Tonoyan, May 25, 1910 – March 9, 1974) was an ethnic Armenian Soviet writer, poet and translator.[1]

Khachik Dashtents
Born	(1910-05-25)May 25, 1910 Dashtadem, Sasun, Western Armenia
Died	March 9, 1974(1974-03-09) (aged 63) Yerevan, Soviet Armenia
Occupation	Writer poet translator
Nationality	Armenian
Education	Yerevan State University
Children	Tavros Dashtents

Biography

Khachik Dashtents was born in a shepherd's family on May 25, 1910 in Dashtadem, Sasun, Western Armenia (Turkey today).^{[citation needed]}

After the Armenian genocide, he moved to Yerevan and graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1932, and later studied at the Moscow State Linguistic University (graduating in 1940).^{[citation needed]}

In 1934 he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.^{[citation needed]}

Dashtents is an author of poetry collections ("Songbook", 1932; "Spring Songs", 1934; "Fire", 1936), "Tigran The Great," a historical drama (1947), translations from William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Saroyan. The "Khodedan" (1950) and "Call of Plowmen" (published posthumously, in 1979) novels tell the tragic story of Western Armenians during World War I.^{[citation needed]}

He is the father of filmmaker Tavros Dashtents.^{[citation needed]}

He died in Yerevan, Armenia on March 9, 1974.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Khachik Dashtents Blog
• ԽԱՉԻԿ ԴԱՇՏԵՆՑ
• Dashtents at Armenianhouse

На других языках

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- [en] Khachik Dashtents

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[ru] Даштенц, Хачик Тоноевич

Хачик Тоноевич Даштенц (арм. Խաչիկ Դաշտենց, настоящая фамилия — Тоноян, 25 мая 1910, Даштаян[d], Битлисский вилайет — 9 марта 1974, Ереван) — армянский советский писатель, поэт, переводчик. Заслуженный деятель культуры Армянской ССР.

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