Ardashes Harutiunian (Արտաշէս Յարութիւնեան, also used pen-names Manishak, Ban, Shahen-Garo and Garo, 1873, in Malkara, near Rodosto (now Tekirdağ), Ottoman Empire – 16 August 1915) was an Ottoman Armenian poet, a self-educated translator from French and literary critic.

[1] Since 1912 he lived in Constantinople (Istanbul), where he worked as a teacher and contributed to Western Armenian newspapers.

[citation needed] He was one of the first literary critics of contemporary Armenian poets like Misak Medzarents, Daniel Varujan and Siamanto.

[2] After Harutiunian's death his poems were published in separate books in Paris (1937) and Yerevan (1968).

The main topics of his poetry are love, romantics and humanism ("The Tramp in the Night", "Dawn", "Windows").