Khachik Dashtents
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| Born | May 25, 1910 Dashtadem, Sasun, Western Armenia |
| Died | March 9, 1974 (aged 63) Yerevan, Soviet Armenia |
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| Nationality | Armenian |
| Education | Yerevan State University |
| Children | Tavros Dashtents |
Khachik Dashtents (Armenian: Խաչիկ Դաշտենց; Khachik Tonoyi Tonoyan, May 25, 1910 – March 9, 1974) was an ethnic Armenian Soviet writer, poet and translator.[1]
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 in 1932, and later studied at the Moscow State Linguistic University (graduating in 1940).
In 1934 he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.
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 .
He died in Yerevan, Armenia on March 9, 1974.[citation needed]
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External links[]
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