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Mukhran Machavariani

Died in 2010

Mukhran Machavariani, born on 12 April 1929 in the village of Argveti, in the Sachkhere district, graduated from the faculty of letters of Tbilisi University and published his first verses in 1952 in the annual almanac of the students' literary circle. A laureate of the seventh World Festival of Youth in 1959, he headed the poetry section of the journal Tsiskari, then the journals Dila and Saunje, and presided over the Writers' Union of Georgia from 1988 to 1992. Winner of the Shota Rustaveli Prize in 1987, he died on 17 May 2010 on the stage of the Rustaveli Theatre, where he was speaking in tribute to the poet Fridon Khalvashi.

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