Bagrat Shinkuba

Bagrat Shinkuba (born May 12, 1917, Chlow, Abkhazia [now Abkhazia, Georgia]—died February 25, 2004, Sokhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia) was an Abkhazian writer and political figure, best known for his poetry. Shinkuba was trained as a teacher and subsequently worked in the field of Abkhazian philology. A member of the Abkhazian Institute for Language, Literature, and History, he was involved in translating literary works into Abkhaz and in documenting Abkhaz oral tradition. He compiled a volume of...