Khachik Dashtents

Khachik Dashtents

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

Biography

Khachik Dashtents was born in a shepherd's family on May 25, 1910 in Dashtadem, Sasun, Western Armenia (Turkey today). After the Armenian Genocide, he moved to Yerevan and graduated from the Yerevan State University (1932), and then from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages. 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.

He died in Yerevan, Armenia on March 9, 1974.

See also

  • He is the father of filmmaker Tavros Dashtents.
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