Artem Harutyunyan (Armenian: Արտեմ Հարությունյան, born September 19, 1945, in Stepanakert) is an Armenian writer, translator, critic, Doctor of Philology, Professor, member of Writers Union of Armenia, Artem Harutyunyan was born in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, in 1945.

He is Professor of Foreign Literature and Literary Criticism at Yerevan State University, and is a Fulbright Scholar for 1994, at Colgate University, he is also second term Fulbright Professor for 2001, at USLA (Los Angeles).

His two other important books of poetry in Armenian are Letter to Noah and other poems (Yerevan, 1997), and in 2003, the honorary title of winner of state prize of the Republic of Armenia was granted to Artem Harutyunyan for his book Juda's vocation (Yerevan, 2003).

Among his Armenian translations are James Joyce's Dubliners (Yerevan, 1983), and an anthology of British and American poetry of twentieth century: Selections from American and British poets, which is part poetry anthology, part critical treatise (Yerevan, 2000).

His critical works include A History of the English Novel (Yerevan, 1992) and The Main Trends of Development in Postwar American Poetry: 1945–1980 (Yerevan, 1986), which was the first doctoral thesis in the former USSR on contemporary American poetry.