Daur Zantaria

He graduated with a gold medal from Tamysh high school in 1971 and with honours from the philological faculty of the Sukhum State Pedagogical Institute in 1975.

[1] Zantaria published his first short story Kuasta in the magazine Alashara in 1976.

In the following years, his short stories and poems appeared in Alashara, the children's magazine Amtsabz, the newspaper Apsny Kapsh and the almanac Literary Abkhazia.

He had conceived of the idea of founding the party along with historian Guram Gumba and Russian poet Aleksandr Bardodym during a visit by the latter in 1990.

[2] In the 1990s, Zantaria became a member of the Union of Abkhazian Writers and published stories, essays and articles for Novy Mir, Druzhba Narodov, Znamya, Expert, Obshchey Gazeta, as well as a number of novels and collections of short stories and poems.