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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 | |
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Born | Dashtadem, Sasun, Western Armenia | May 25, 1910
Died | March 9, 1974 63) Yerevan, Soviet Armenia | (aged
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Nationality | Armenian |
Education | Yerevan State University |
Children | Tavros Dashtents |
Khachik Dashtents was born in a shepherd's family on May 25, 1910 in Dashtadem, Sasun, Western Armenia (Turkey today).[2]
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).[3]
In 1934 he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.[4]
Dashtents is an author of poetry collections ("Songbook", 1932; "Springa 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.[3][5][6]
He is the father of filmmaker Tavros Dashtents.[citation needed]
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