Gamzat Tsadasa
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Born | Tsada village, Makhachkala, Dagestan | 9 August 1877
Occupation | Poet |
Title | People's poet of the Dagestan ASSR (USSR) (1934) |
Writing career | |
Genre | Socialist realism |
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Gamzat Tsadasa (
Life
Gamzat Tsadasa was born on 9 August 1877 in the Avar village of Tsada in the north-east Caucasus, in Russian Empire in the family of a poor peasant.[2] His surname "Tsadasa" is a pseudonym and comes from the name of the village "Tsada" (translated from Avar - "from Tsada"). Early became an orphan, his father Yusupil Magoma died when he was 7 years old, his mother soon died.
Gamzat studied in
Gamzat Tsadasa died on June 11, 1951, in Makhachkala. He is buried in the city center (Rasul Gamzatov avenue)[4]
Legacy
The beginning of his literary path dates back to 1891, with his first poem “The Dog of Alibek”. He wrote literary works of a socially accusatory nature, his poems, jokes were directed against various established norms adats, mullahs, wealthy people, traders. After the
Gamzat Tsadasa is the first author of
Dagestan State Avar Theater in Makhachkala was named after Gamzat Tsadasa posthumously in 1951. Gamzat Tsadasa poems and novels were compiled in numerous books and two hand-drawn cartoons were animated based on his fables[5]
- Ant and Elephant (1948)
- Lion and Hare (1949)
In 1967 the museum of Gamzat Tsadasa was opened in his native village of Tsada.
Awards
- Stalin Prize second degree (1951) - for the collection of poems ("The Tale of the Shepherd") (1950)
- Order of Lenin - to commemorate the 50th anniversary of creative activity (1944)
- Order of Lenin - to the 70th birthday (1947)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor(1939)
- Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
- Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
- Peoples poet of the DASSR (1934)
- Certificates of honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the DASSR
References
- ^ Гамзат Цадаса на портале ПоэзоСфера
- ^ Поэт, рожденный поэтом
- ^ Первый всесоюзный съезд советских писателей. Стенографический отчёт. Государственное издательство художественной литературы. 1934. pp. 262, 695. (Among the list of the delegates he is mentioned as Gamzet Tsadassa, p. 695)
- ^ "Дагестанский актер предложил огородить от толпы могилу Гамзата Цадасы". Archived from the original on 2019-07-21. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
- ^ Воспевая родной край
External links
- Media related to Gamzat Tsadasa at Wikimedia Commons