Khachik Dashtents

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

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).^[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]}

He died in Yerevan, Armenia on March 9, 1974.^[4]

Memorial plaque of Khachik Dashtents on Mashtots Avenue in Yerevan

References

1. Даштенц Хачик Тоноевич, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
2. "Dashtents Khachik". Institute for Armenian Studies of Yerevan State University. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
3. "Khachik Dashtents - Biography". armenianhouse.org. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
4. "Death of Khachik Dashtents (March 9, 1974)". The Armenian Prelacy. 2020-03-05. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
5. "Official presentation of the Vietnamese edition of Armenian writer Khachik Dashtents' novel "Call of the Ploughmen"". Embassy of Armenia to Vietnam. 2023-12-09. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
6. "Khachik Dashtents' birthday: "He had an impressive entrance"". www.aysor.am. 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2024-02-07.

External links

• Khachik Dashtents Blog
• ԽԱՉԻԿ ԴԱՇՏԵՆՑ
• Dashtents at Armenianhouse