David Magradze

David Magradze

David (Dato) Magradze (Georgian: დავით [დათო] მაღრაძე) (born June 28 1962) is a Georgian poet and politician. He is the author of lyrics of the current National Anthem of Georgia (2004).

Born to the family of the writer and literary scholar Elguja Magradze in Tbilisi, Magradze is a philologist by education trained at the Tbilisi State University. He debuted in the 1980s and edited the leading Georgian literary journal Tsiskari for several years. Under Eduard Shevardnadze, he served as Minister of Culture of Georgia from 1992 to 1995 and was elected to the Parliament of Georgia from 1999 until he resigned his position in the legislature in 2001. Magradze withdrew into opposition to Shevardnadze and supported the 2003 Rose Revolution which forced him to resign.[1] By 2009, he had joined the opposition to President Mikheil Saakashvili and featured prominently in April 2009 rallies demanding Saakashvili's resignation.[2]

Since 1997, Magradze is the President of the Georgian PEN club. He has been awarded several Georgian and international literary prizes and the Georgian Order of Dignity. His poems have been translated into English, German, Italian, Russian, and Armenian languages.

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