Khachik Dashtents (Armenian: Խաչիկ Դաշտենց; Khachik Tonoyi Tonoyan, May 25, 1910 – March 9, 1974) was an ethnic Armenian Soviet writer, poet and translator.

[1] Khachik Dashtents was born into a shepherd's family on May 25, 1910 in Dashtadem, Sasun, Western Armenia (now Turkey).

[2] After the Armenian genocide, he moved to Yerevan and graduated from Yerevan State University in 1932, and later studied at the Moscow State Linguistic University (graduating in 1940).

[4] Dashtents was the author of several poetry collections ("Songbook", 1932; "Springa 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.