What is Gulnazar Keldi?
[[File:Gulnazar Keldi 03.jpg|right|200px]] '''Gulnazar Keldi''' ({{lang-tg|Гулназар Келдӣ}}; 20 September 1945 – 13 August 2020) was a [[Tajikistan|Tajikistani]] [[poet]]. He was born in [[Dardar]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Sobir |first=Bozor |year=1996 |title=Three Tajik Poets |journal=[[World Literature Today]] |volume=70 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Soviet Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvxfAAAAMAAJ|access-date=27 May 2013|year=1981|publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House|page=188}}</ref> He was an editor of the publication ''[[Adabiyet va sanat]]'' (''Literature and Art'').<ref>{{cite book |title=Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2004 |url=https://archive.org/details/easterneuroperus0004unse |page=[https://archive.org/details/easterneuroperus0004unse/page/460 460] |year=2003 |publisher=[[Europa Publications]] |isbn=978-1-85743-187-2 }}</ref> Keldi wrote the lyrics of ''[[Surudi Milli]]'', the [[national anthem]] of [[Tajikistan]]. Keldi died on 13 August 2020 in [[Dushanbe]] from [[COVID-19]], aged 74.<ref>[https://asiaplustj.info/ru/node/286048 Даргузашти муаллифи суруди миллӣ Гулназар Келдӣ дар бемористон] {{in lang|tg}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Keldi, Gulnazar}} [[Category:1945 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic]] [[Category:Asian poets]] [[Category:Lyricists]] [[Category:Editors]] [[Category:Tajik people]] {{bio-stub}}