Ilo Onysymovych Mosashvili ( ka, სახელად ხალხი; 7 January 1896 – 4 August 1954) was a Georgian and Soviet writer, playwright and translator.
Life
Ilo Mosashvili was born in Chargali village, now in
Dusheti
Dusheti () is a town in Georgia, the administrative center of Dusheti Municipality, in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, 54 km northeast of the nation's capital of Tbilisi.
History
Dusheti is on both banks of the small, mountainous Dushetis-K ...
municipality, Georgia. He studied at the St. Petersburg Psycho-Neurological Institute from 1914 to 1917.
He graduated from
Kharkov University
The Kharkiv University or Karazin University ( uk, Каразінський університет), or officially V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University ( uk, Харківський національний університет імені ...
, Faculty of Law. He was editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Schultz'' and editor of the newspaper ''Communist'' from 1926 to 1932. From 1937 to 1940 he was Director of the Georgia Literary Foundation.
Mosashvili's first poem was published in the newspaper ''Light'' in 1911. He also published short stories, essays and plays. Several of his poems became songs. He wrote works for children, and translated works by Shevchenko, Franko, Mayakovsky and Essenin.
After
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
(1939–1944) Mosashvili mainly worked in drama. His play ''Chief of the Station'' (სადგურის უფროსი; 1947) was about the heroic defense of the Caucasus in World War II. ''Sunken Stones'' (ჩაძირული ქვები; 1949) was about the life of Georgians in Turkey and elsewhere. It won the Stalin Prize in 1951.
Mosashvili died in Tbilisi. He is buried in the
Didube Pantheon
The Didube Pantheon ( ka, დიდუბის მწერალთა და საზოგადო მოღვაწეთა პანთეონი) is a cemetery in Tbilisi, Georgia, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, s ...
, Tbilisi.
Membership
*Writers Union Board, Member
*Presidium of the Writers' Union, Member
*Radical Democratic Party, Member (1917-1918)
*Union of Soviet Writers of Georgia, Member (1934-)
*Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR, MP
*Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR, member
Awards
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Order of the Red Banner of Labour
The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...
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Order of Lenin
The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration ...
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Stalin Prize Stalin Prize may refer to:
* The State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1954, later known as the USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, ...
Works
Screenplays
Mosashvili wrote screenplays for six films:
* ''Arshaula'' (Cкала Аршаула; 1935)
* ''Across the River'' (За рекой; 1935)
* ''Two Friends'' (Два друга; 1937)
* ''Girl from the Other Side'' (Девушка с того берега; 1940)
* ''The Sentry Box'' (В сторожевой будке; 1941)
* ''He Will Come Back'' (Он еще вернется: 1943)
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1896 births
1954 deaths
20th-century dramatists and playwrights from Georgia (country)
People from Tiflis Governorate
Writers from Georgia (country)
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Socialist realism writers
Dramatists and playwrights from Georgia (country)
Male writers from Georgia (country)
Soviet dramatists and playwrights
Soviet male writers
Burials at Didube Pantheon