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Name
  
Iza Orjonikidze

Role
  
Poet


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Died
  
February 9, 2010, Tbilisi, Georgia

Education
  
Moscow State University

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Iza Orjonikidze (Georgian: იზა ორჯონიკიძე) (November 21, 1938 – February 9, 2010) was a Georgian poet and literary scholar who was also member of the Parliament of Georgia from 1992 to 1995.

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Born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia, Orjonikidze graduated from the Moscow State University with a degree in philology in 1965. In 1976, she was appointed the director of Leonidze Museum of Georgian Literature, a position she held until 1982 and again from 1989 to 1990 and from 1991 to 2010. In 1989, Orjonikidze was a member of the special commission investigating the actions of the Soviet military against the pro-independence demonstrations in Georgia on April 9, 1989. After Georgia’s independence from the Soviet Union, she was elected to the parliament for Tbilisi's Saburtalo district from 1992 to 1995.

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Orjonikidze published several collections of her poetry and prose. She received several literary and civic awards, including the Shota Rustaveli State Prize and the Order of Honour. She died after a long illness in Tbilisi at the age of 71.

References

Iza Orjonikidze Wikipedia


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