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Dmitry Gulia (Abkhaz: Дырмит Иасыф-иҧа Гәлиа; 9 February 1874 – 7 April 1960) was an Abkhazian Soviet writer and poet, considered to be one of the founders of Abkhaz literature.
Dmitry Iosifovich Gulia was born in the village of Uarcha in the modern Gulripsh District of Abkhazia to a peasant family. Gulia studied at a teacher seminary in the city of Gori. In 1892 together with Konstantin Machavariani he compiled Abkhaz alphabet based on Cyrillic characters. In his poetry collection (1912) the poet expressed the hopes of Abkhaz people for the beautiful future and hatred towards any injustice. In 1921 Gulia organized and headed the first Abkhaz theater group. He was an editor of the first Abkhaz newspaper Apsny (Abkhazia). His diverse activities reached the culmination in the Soviet times. His lyrics are penetrated with the pathos of creation, friendship, and unity of nations (epics Song about Abkhazia, 1940, Autumn in the Countryside, 1946, etc.). Gulia wrote the first Abkhaz novella, Under Someone Else's Sky (1919). In the novel Kamachich (1940), he depicted the life of Abkhazians during the czarism and joyless destiny of a woman. Gulia's role in Abkhaz culture development is enormous. He authored works on language, history, and ethnography of the Abkhaz, chrestomathies and textbooks. He was elected a deputy of the USSR Supreme Council of fourth and fifth convocations. He was awarded the Order of Lenin. He held in the newspaper Apsny, that he created, a weekly rubric about abkhazian dominoes.
Dmitry Gulia died on April 7, 1960 in the village of Agudzera in Abkhazia and was buried in the city of Sukhumi.
Sources
Bibliography Gulia G.D. Dmitry Gulia - Story of My Father - Moscow, 1963 Bgazhba H., Zelinsky K. Dmitry Gulia - Critic Biographic Essay - [Sukhum], 1965
Grand Soviet Encyclopedia, Third Edition - Moscow, 1974
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