Poet Tariel Chanturia died at 94

Georgian poet Tariel Chanturia died at the age of 94, the family relatives confirmed to the GPB First Channel.

Tariel Chanturia graduated from the Journalism Division of the Philology Department of the Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University (TSU) in 1956.

His first poem, Hunting, was published in 1951, while his collection of poems was released in 1964.

His basic collections are Swing (1965), Stone and War (1967), New Moon (1970), The Two (1972), Exhausted Serpentine (1973), The Year of the Gentle Sun (1975), A Year of Bliss (1978), Longer Poems (1979), Stresses and Words (1980), Selected Poetry (1982), Pacing Up and Down (1993), A Writer’s Red Book (1995).

Tariel Chanturia’s poems are translated into many languages.