Ana Kalandadze

Ana Kalandadze, born on 15 December 1924 in the village of Khidistavi, in Guria, into a peasant family, finished her secondary studies in Kutaisi in 1941 and graduated in 1946 from the faculty of philology of Tbilisi University, specialising in Caucasian languages. She published her first verses the same year and in 1952 joined the lexicology department of the Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, where she spent her entire career. A translator of Russian and European poetry, and a laureate of the Rustaveli and Galaktion Tabidze prizes, she died in Tbilisi in 2008 and is buried in the Mtatsminda Pantheon.

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• PoetryლექსებიAna Kalandadze · 1953Literature