Ana Kalandadze ( ka, ანა კალანდაძე) (15 December 1924 – 11 March 2008) was a
Georgian poet and one of the most influential female figures in modern Georgian literature.
Kalandadze was born in the village
Khidistavi near
Chokhatauri
Chokhatauri ( ka, ჩოხატაური) is a town in Georgia’s Guria region, 310 km west to the nation's capital of Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი, ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), ...
in Georgia's southwest region of
Guria
Guria ( ka, გურია) is a region (''mkhare'') in Georgia (country), Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea. The region has a population of 104,338 (2023), with Ozurgeti as the regional cap ...
. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at
Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...
in 1946, and published her first poems the same year. Her intricate, subtle rhythms, and personal lyricism garnered much popularity. In the words of Professor
Donald Rayfield
Patrick Donald Rayfield OBE (born 12 February 1942, Oxford) is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, and about Jos ...
:
Many of Kalandadze's poems on patriotic and romantic themes have been made into popular songs. She was also a prolific translator of Russian and European poetry. She died as a result of a
cerebrovascular incident and was buried at the
Mtatsminda Pantheon
The Mtatsminda Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures ( ka, მთაწმინდის მწერალთა და საზოგადო მოღვაწეთა პანთეონი, ''mtats'mindis mts'eralta da sazogado mo ...
.
Известная грузинская поэтесса Анна Каландадзе будет похоронена на Мтацминда
''NewsGeorgia''. March 14, 2008.
References
1924 births
2008 deaths
People from Guria
Women poets from Georgia (country)
Soviet women poets
20th-century poets from Georgia (country)
20th-century women writers from Georgia (country)
20th-century translators
21st-century writers from Georgia (country)
21st-century women writers from Georgia (country)
Tbilisi State University alumni
Burials at Mtatsminda Pantheon
Laureates of the State Prize of Georgia (country)
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