Daur Zantaria
Daur Zantaria ( ab, Даур Занҭариа) (25 May 1953 – 7 August 2001) was a writer and journalist from Abkhazia, publishing both in Abkhaz and Russian languages. Early life and education Zantaria was born on 25 May 1953 in the village of Tamysh, Ochamchira District. He graduated with a gold medal from Tamysh high school in 1971 and with honours from the philological faculty of the Sukhum State Pedagogical Institute in 1975. Literary career Zantaria published his first short story ''Kuasta'' in the magazine '' Alashara'' in 1976. In the following years, his short stories and poems appeared in ''Alashara'', the children's magazine '' Amtsabz'', the newspaper '' Apsny Kapsh'' and the almanac '' Literary Abkhazia''. In 1984, Zantaria entered the Union of Soviet Writers. That same year, he participated in a workshop for script writers in Moscow by Valentin Yezhov and wrote the script for the film ''Souvenir'', released in 1985. On 19 January 1991, Zantaria presided over ...
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