Tlgadintsi or Tlkatintsi (Hovhannes Harutiunian, 1860, Tlkatin village, Kharberd, Western Armenia

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 -1915) was an Armenia

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n writer and teacher, one of the prominent representatives of rural literature.

Tlkatintsi was born in Tlkatin village, nowadays Huylu (Turkey

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). He lost his father at an early age. After he finished the Smbatian school in Kharberd, he dedicated his life to teaching in rural areas.