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KHACHIK DASHTENTS
1909-1974
Khachik Dashtents (Tonoyan Khachik Tonoevitch) – a famous
Armenian writer, poet, and translator – was born into a shepherd’s
family on April 15, 1909 in the village of Dashtayan of Sasun vilayet
in Western Armenia. Later he chose his literary pseudonym according
to his village’s name – Dashtents.
Dashtents witnessed a lot of suffering through the hard roads that
led him from the Sasun Mountains to Eastern Armenia, and he finally
took refuge in the orphanage of the American Mission of Alexandropol
(later Leninakan, currently Gyumri), where he received his early
education.
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