Gulnazar Keldi

Gulnazar Keldi (Tajik: Гулназар Келдӣ; 20 September 1945 – 13 August 2020) was a Tajikistani poet from Dardar[1][2] and editor of the publication Adabiyet va sanat (Literature and Art).

[3] Keldi wrote the lyrics of "Surudi Milli", the national anthem of Tajikistan.

In 1966 he graduated from the Faculty of Literature and Language of the Tajik State University in Dushanbe.

Immediately after graduation, he began working as a correspondent, later as deputy editor-in-chief of the youth newspaper “Komsomol of Tajikistan”.

In 1973, he moved to the position of deputy director of the literary magazine “Sadoi Sharq” (“Voice of the East”).