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 ( 1932 ) , and then from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages . 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
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Khachik Dashtents