27 November 2024,   23:47
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Poet Rezo Amashukeli has died at the age of 85

He graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Faculty of Philology in 1960.

In 1968 Amashukeli was awarded the Georgian Communist Party Prize for the poem “Shout”. He was the secretary of the Georgian Writers’ Union, the First Deputy Chairperson of the Shota Rustaveli Society, the Deputy Chairperson of the Citizens’ Union.

Rezo Amashukeli was awarded the Order of Merit in 1996. He is the Laureate of the Galaktion Tabidze Prize (1982) and the Georgian Communist Union Prize (1968).

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