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List Of Georgian Writers
An alphabetic list of prose writers and poets from the nation of Georgia. A *Alexander Abasheli, 1884–1954, Russian E/USSR, poet and non-fiction writer *Grigol Abashidze, 1914–1994, USSR/Georgia, poet *Irakli Abashidze, 1909–1992, Russian E/USSR, poet and non-fiction writer * Alexander Amilakhvari, 1750–1802, Georgia, non-fiction writer *Chabua Amirejibi, 1921–2013, USSR/Georgia, fiction and non-fiction writer * Manana Antadze, born 1945, USSR/Georgia, writer and translator * Shio Aragvispireli, 1867–1926, Russian E/USSR, non-fiction writer *Archil of Imereti, 1647–1713, Georgia, poet * Lavrenti Ardaziani, 1815–1870, Russian E, fiction and non-fiction writer *Lado Asatiani (1917–1943, USSR, poet B *Gerzel Baazov, 1904–1938, Russian E/USSR, poet and playwright *Nikoloz Baratashvili, 1817–1845, Russian E/Azerbaijan, poet * Vasil Barnovi, 1856–1934, Russian E/USSR, fiction writer *Elena Botchorichvili, living, USSR/Canada, fiction and non-fiction writer *Lash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia (, ; ) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and northeast, by Turkey to the southwest, by Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast. The country covers an area of , and has a population of 3.7 million people. Tbilisi is its capital as well as its largest city, home to roughly a third of the Georgian population. During the classical era, several independent kingdoms became established in what is now Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. In the early 4th century, ethnic Georgians officially adopted Christianity, which contributed to the spiritual and political unification of the early Georgian states. In the Middle Ages, the unified Kingdom of Georgia emerged and reached its Golden Age during the reign of King David IV and Queen Tamar in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the kingdom decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Besiki
Besarion Zakarias dze Gabashvili ( ka, ბესარიონ ზაქარიას ძე გაბაშვილი), commonly known by his pen name Besiki ( ka, ბესიკი) (1750 – 25 January 1791), was a Georgian poet, politician and diplomat, known as an author of exquisite love songs and heroic odes as well as for his political and amorous adventures. Life Besiki was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital. He came of a noble family, which claimed descent from the ancient city of Gibeon (Georgian: Gabaoni) in Palestine. The poet himself frequently used the surname Gabaoni, a variant of Gabashvili. Besiki's father, Zakaria, was a Georgian Orthodox priest and a confessor of King Teimuraz II. Zakaria was excommunicated and banished in 1764, but Besiki was allowed by King Erekle II to stay at the royal court where he received his education and began his career of a minstrel, his early style being influenced by Persian poetry and his older contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nodar Dumbadze
Nodar Dumbadze ( ka, ნოდარ დუმბაძე, July 14, 1928 – September 4, 1984) was a popular Georgian writer. Biography Born in Guria, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Tbilisi State University in 1950. His first poems and humorous stories appeared in the Georgian press in the same year. He edited the satirical magazine ''Niangi'' from 1967 until 1972, when he became a secretary of the Union of Georgian Writers and a member of the presidium of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1972. Most of his fame came through his novels ''Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarioni'' (მე, ბებია, ილიკო და ილარიონი; 1960), '' I Can See the Sun'' (მე ვხედავ მზეს; 1962), '' The Sunny Night'' (მზიანი ღამე; 1967), ''Don’t Be Afraid, Mother!'' (ნუ გეშინია, დედა!; 1971), ''The White Banners'' (თეთრი ბაირაღები; 1973), and '' The Law of Eternity'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dephy
David Dephy ( ka, დავით დეფი, born June 21, 1968), also known as David Dephy Gogibedashvili, is a Georgian / American poet, novelist, essayist, performer, multimedia artist, painter, the founder of Poetry Orchestra and the poetic order Samcaully. He is the author of eight novels and seventeen collections of verse and three poetry bilingual audio albums with orchestra and electronic bands. Named as Literature Luminary by Bowery Poetry, Stellar Poet by Voices of Poetry, Incomparable Poet by Statorec, Brilliant Grace by Headline Poetry & Press and Extremely Unique Poetic Voice by Cultural Daily. He lives and works in New York City, USA. Biography David Dephy was born in Tbilisi. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1992 from the Faculty of Architecture at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. He began his career working in print media, radio, and television, where he created the program მზეRA (Mze-Ra) for the Georgian television station Meore Archi. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demetrius I Of Georgia
Demetrius I ( ka, დემეტრე) ( 1093 – 1156), from the Bagrationi dynasty, was King of Georgia from 1125 to 1156. He is also known as a poet. He was King of United Georgian kingdom two times, first in 1125 to 1154 and second in 1155 before his death in 1156. Life Demetrius was the eldest son of King David the Builder by his first wife Rusudan. He was brought up in Kutaisi. As a commander, he took part in his father's battles against Seljuks, particularly at Didgori (1121) and Shirvan (1123). In 1117, he was sent by David at the head of a Georgian army into Shirvan, where Demetrius reduced the fortress of Kaladzor (later Alberd, now Ağdaş) and put to flight the men of Sökmen II, "commander of all the forces of Persia" — as a Georgian chronicler suggests. This Sökmen was probably a Shah-Armen prince, and subsequently, ruler in his own right, Sökmen II, whom the Shirvanshah Afridun I must have applied for help. Demetrius succeeded on his father's death on Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Dadeshkeliani
Nino Dadeshkeliani (June 17, 1890 – 1931), a Georgian author, was the daughter of General Prince Alexander Dadeshkeliani and Princess Eristavi. Her father, an inspector of State Forests, was assassinated in 1909. During World War I, Dadeshkeliani joined the Russian Army, and served with the 4th Tartar Regiment. She drove an ambulance on the Austrian front before being wounded in 1916. After the war, Dadeshkeliani lived in Georgia and served in the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. However, when Soviet Russia took control of the country in March 1921, the family moved to Paris. An account of Dadeshkeliani's wartime experiences, ''Princess in Uniform'', was published in 1934. See also *List of ambulance drivers during World War I This is a list of notable people who served as ambulance drivers during the First World War. A remarkable number—writers especially—volunteered as ambulance drivers for the Allied Powers. In many cases, they sympathized str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aneta Dadeshkeliani
Aneta Dadiani-Dadeshkeliani (1872–1922) was a Georgian poet, educator and social reformer. Her poetry was published in contemporary journals. Together with her husband, Jansug Dadeshkeliani, she strove to improve the lives of the peasantry. She was an active member of the Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians.Stephen F. Jones (2005)''Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917'' p. 37. Harvard University Press, . Biography Born in 1872 in Jvari, Aneta Dadiani lost her mother when still very young. As a result, she was brought up by her uncle, the poet Akaki Tsereteli. In 1888, she married Jansug Dadeshkelini, from the princely House of Dadeshkeliani. Their two sons died in World War I. Following in her uncle's footsteps, she wrote poems which were published in journals and newspapers. Playing an active role in social work, she promoted literacy among the peasantry of Samegrelo and Svaneti while participating in the Society f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Chonkadze
Daniel Chonkadze ( ka, დანიელ ჭონქაძე) (1830 – June 16, 1860) was a Georgian novelist primarily known for his resonant novella ''Suramis tsikhe'' ("Surami Fortress"). Chonkadze was born to a peasant family near Dusheti. His native village housed a mixed Georgian- Ossetian community, a prerequisite for the future writer's lively interest in both Georgian and Ossetian folk traditions. Educated at the seminaries of Vladikavkaz and Tbilisi, Chonkadze then taught Ossetic in Stavropol and Tbilisi in the 1850s. Simultaneously he served as a church official, but would later abandon his clerical status. Much of his work was on Georgian and Ossetic folklore. He authored an unfinished Russian-Ossetic dictionary, and wrote down a collection of Ossetic proverbs using an alphabet invented by Professor Andreas Sjögren for the Ossetians. For this reason, he is considered by some to have been "a founder-father of Ossetic literature".Rayfield, Donald (2000), '' The Lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamaz Chiladze
Tamaz Chiladze ( ka, თამაზ ჭილაძე; 5 March 1931 – 28 September 2018) was a Georgian writer, dramatist and poet. He was the elder brother of Georgian writer Otar Chiladze. Biography Chiladze was born to the family of an economist and a writer in 1931 in Signagi, Georgia. He graduated from the Department of Philology of Tbilisi State University in 1954. In the same year, Chiladze published his first collection of poems. ''Ciskari'' magazine printed his first story, ''Taking the Walk with the Pony Phaeton''. In 1965, his play ''The Aquarium'' was staged at the Rustaveli Theater. He had since been recognized as the author of the anthology of Georgian classical dramaturgy. According to the author, the first critic of his writings was his mother, who was a poet herself. Works and awards Chiladze's works have been translated into different languages. He was awarded several prizes, among them the '' Shota Rustaveli National Prize'' and the ''First Prize of West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otar Chiladze
Otar Chiladze ( ka, ოთარ ჭილაძე; March 20, 1933 — October 1, 2009) was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of Georgian prose in the post-Joseph Stalin era. His novels characteristically fuse Sumerian and Hellenic mythology with the predicaments of a modern Georgian intellectual.Rayfield, Donald (2000), '' The Literature of Georgia: A History'', pp. 283-7. Routledge, . Biography Chiladze was born in Sighnaghi, a town in Kakheti, the easternmost province of then-Soviet Georgia. He graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in journalism in 1956. His works, primary poetry, first appeared in the 1950s. At the same time, Chiladze engaged in literary journalism, working for leading magazines in Tbilisi. He gained popularity with his series of lengthy, atmospheric novels, such as '' A Man Was Going Down the Road'' (1972–3), ''Everyone That Findeth Me'' (1976), ''Avelum'' (1995), and others. He was a chief editor of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Chikovani
Simon Ivanes dze Chikovani ( ka, სიმონ ჩიქოვანი; 27 December 1902 – 24 April 1966) was a prominent Georgian poet. He set out to be the leader of the Georgian Futurist movement and ended up as a Soviet establishment figure. Early life and career Born near the town Abasha, he was educated at the Kutaisi Realschule and Tbilisi State University from which he graduated in 1922. As a teenager, he was associated with the Blue Horns, a group of young Georgian Symbolists. Although he stood far from any “proletarian” thematic, he joined the nascent "Left" poets and became their spokesman. In 1924, was arrested and nearly shot on a walking-tour to Kakheti during the Red Terror that followed the Georgian rebellion against the Soviet rule. Between 1924 and 1929, he produced two series of poems (ფიქრები მტკვრის პირას Mtkvari.html" ;"title="The Thought at the Mtkvari">The Thought at the Mtkvari" 1925; მხოლოდ ლე ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilia Chavchavadze
Prince Ilia Chavchavadze ( ka, ილია ჭავჭავაძე; 8 November 1837 – 12 September 1907) was a Georgian public figure, journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the second half of the 19th century and ensured the survival of the Georgian language, literature, and culture during the last decades of Tsarist rule. He is Georgia's "most universally revered hero" and is regarded as the "Father of the Nation." He was a leader of contemporary youth intellectual movement named "Tergdaleulebi". They spread modern and European liberal ideals in Georgia. Ilia Chavchavadze founded two modern newspapers: ''Sakartvelos Moambe'' and ''Iveria''. He played an important role in the creation of the first financial structure in Georgia – Land Bank of Tbilisi. During 30 years he was a chairman of this Bank, through which he financed and promoted most of the cultural, educational, economical and charity events which too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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