Taif Ajba
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March 11, 1939
Sukhumi
Taif Ajba | |
|---|---|
| Born | Taif Ajba March 11, 1939 |
| Disappeared | October 9, 1992 (aged 53) Sukhumi |
| Status | Missing for 33 years, 6 months and 3 days |
Taif Ajba (Abkhaz: Таиф Аџьба) was an Abkhaz language poet from Abkhazia. Ajba was born on 11 March 1939 in the village of Achandara, Gudauta District. Ajba was last seen on 9 October 1992 in Sukhumi, less than two months after the entrance of the Georgian military at the start of the 1992–1993 war, as he and three others were driven off in a bus by Georgian guards into an unknown direction. According to unconfirmed reports, Ajba was tortured and shot dead.[1][2]
Ajba's first collection of poetry, entitled simply 'Poems', was published in 1968. Besides original work, Ajba also translated into Abkhaz works by Russian poets, including Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev and Alexander Blok.[2]
