Khachik Dashtents(1910–1974)

Khachik Dashtents was a Soviet Armenian writer, poet and translator. Dashtents was born in the Ottoman Empire and was orphaned during the Armenian genocide. He grew up in American orphanages in Alexandropol and later graduated from Yerevan State University and the Moscow State Linguistic University, where he studied English. He began his literary career in the 1930s as a poet. Over the course of his career, he translated many works from English into Armenian, including numerous plays by William Shakespeare. He gained recognition for the novel Khodedan (1950), which tells the story of Armenians from his native region of Sasun as they rebuild their lives following the Armenian genocide. His other novel, Ranchparneri kanche, is about the Armenian national liberation movement in the Ottoman Empire. He also authored Tigran Mets, a historical tragedy in verse.