List of Georgian writers
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An alphabetic list of prose writers and poets from the nation of Georgia
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Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
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- Alexander AbasheliAlexander AbasheliAlexander Abasheli was a penname of Isaac Chochia , a Georgian poet and prose writer....
- Grigol Abashidze
- Irakli AbashidzeIrakli AbashidzeIrakli Abashidze was a Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician.Born in Khoni, Georgia , he graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1931 and attended the 1st Congress of the USSR Union of Writers, 1934, when socialist realism was laid down as the cultural orthodoxy...
- Alexander AmilakhvariAlexander AmilakhvariPrince Alexander Amilakhvari was a Georgian nobleman and author known as a theoretical supporter of enlightened absolutism, and also for his opposition to King Erekle II’s rule....
- Chabua AmirejibiChabua AmirejibiMzechabuk "Chabua" Amirejibi, is a Georgian novelist and Soviet-era dissident notable for his magnum opus, Data Tutashkhia, and a lengthy experience in Soviet prisons.- Early life and career :...
- Shio AragvispireliShio AragvispireliShio Aragvispireli was a penname of Shio Dedabrishvili ; December 14, 1867 – January 2, 1926), a Georgian writer popular for his stories of protest against social inequality, the reality of oppressed peasants and underlings and decadent lords, and the struggle between individual happiness and...
- Archil of ImeretiArchil of ImeretiArchil , was a Georgian prince of the Bagrationi Dynasty and poet. He ruled as king of Imereti in western Georgia and of Kakheti in eastern Georgia...
- Lavrenti ArdazianiLavrenti ArdazianiLavrenti Ardaziani was a Georgian writer and journalist and one of the forerunners of Georgian realistic fiction prose....
- Lado AsatianiLado AsatianiVladimir Asatiani was a Georgian poet. His poetic career, lasting only for seven years, made him one of the best-loved Georgian poets of the 20th century....
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- Gerzel BaazovGerzel BaazovGerzel Baazov was a Georgian Jewish poet and playwright who fell victim to Stalin’s Great Purges.He was born in Oni, Georgia into the family of the leading Georgian Zionist David Baazov. At the age of 14, he published his first poems under the penname of Ger-Bi...
- Nikoloz BaratashviliNikoloz BaratashviliNik'oloz Baratashvili was a Georgian poet, one of the first Georgians to marry a modern nationalism with European Romanticism and to introduce "Europeanism" into Georgian literature...
- Vasil BarnoviVasil BarnoviVasil Barnovi was a Georgian writer popular for his historical novels....
- Lasha BugadzeLasha BugadzeLasha Bugadze is a young Georgian playwright. Among his noteworthy plays are Shocked Tatyana, which satirizes war heroism, and writer of Soldier, Love, Bodyguard and ... the President.-References:...
- Zaza BurchuladzeZaza BurchuladzeZaza Burchuladze is a contemporary postmodern Georgian writer and dramatist.-Biography:Zaza Burchuladze graduated the monumental and ornamental painting department of Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.Since 1998 he has been publishing his stories in Georgian newspapers and magazines such as “Arili” ,...
- BesikiBesikiBesarion Gabashvili , commonly known by his penname Besiki 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....
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- ChakhrukhadzeChakhrukhadzeChakhrukhadze is a Georgian poet of the late 12th/early 13th century traditionally credited to have written Tamariani , a collection of twenty two odes and one elegy praising, often deifying Queen Tamar of Georgia...
- Irakli CharkvianiIrakli CharkvianiIrakli Charkviani was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and musician, lately known under his pseudonym Mefe...
- Alexander ChavchavadzeAlexander ChavchavadzePrince Alexander Chavchavadze was a notable Georgian poet, public benefactor and military figure. Regarded as the "father of Georgian romanticism," he was also known as a preeminent aristocrat of Georgia and a talented general in the Imperial Russian service.-Early life:Alexander Chavchavadze was...
- Ilia Chavchavadze
- Simon ChikovaniSimon ChikovaniSimon Chikovani was a Georgian poet who set out to be the leader of Georgian Futurist movement and ended up as a Soviet establishment figure.Born near the town Martvili, he was educated at the Kutaisi Realschule and Tbilisi State University from which he graduated in 1922. As a teenager, he was...
- Otar ChiladzeOtar ChiladzeOtar Chiladze was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of the Georgian prose in the post-Stalin era. His novels characteristically fuse Sumerian and Hellenic mythology with the predicaments of a modern Georgian intellectual...
- Tamaz ChiladzeTamaz ChiladzeTamaz Chiladze , is a Georgian writer, dramatist and poet. He is the elder brother of a Georgian writer Otar Chiladze.-Biography:...
- Daniel ChonkadzeDaniel ChonkadzeDaniel Chonkadze was a Georgian novelist primarily known for his resonant novella Suramis tsikhe ....
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- Ephrem MtsireEphrem MtsireEphrem Mtsire or Ephraim the Small was a Georgian monk at Antioch, theologian and translator of patristic literature from Greek....
- Giorgi EristaviGiorgi EristaviGiorgi Eristavi was a Georgian playwright, poet, journalist, and the founder of modern Georgian theatre.Prince Giorgi Eristavi was born in the village of Odzisi of a prominent noble family, who had once served as the eristavi of Aragvi for the kings of Georgia. He received his early education...
- Rapiel Eristavi
- Anastasia Eristavi-KhoshtariaAnastasia Eristavi-Khoshtariathumb|Anastasia Eristavi-KhoshtariaAnastasia Eristavi-Khoshtaria was a Georgian woman novelist.She was born into an aristocratic family in Gori, Georgia, then part of Imperial Russia...
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- Ekaterine GabashviliEkaterine GabashviliEkaterine Gabashvili née Tarkhnishvili was a Georgian female writer and public figure.She was born into an aristocratic family in Gori, Georgia, then part of Imperial Russia. She authored several sentimental novels and stories about the sorrows of village schoolteachers and peasant life. In the...
- Konstantine GamsakhurdiaKonstantine GamsakhurdiaKonstantine Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian writer and public figure, who, along with Mikheil Javakhishvili, is considered to be one of the most influential Georgian novelists of the 20th century...
- Zviad GamsakhurdiaZviad GamsakhurdiaZviad Gamsakhurdia was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era...
- Mirza GelovaniMirza GelovaniMirza Gelovani was a Georgian poet who died, fighting in the Soviet ranks during World War II at the age of 27.Gelovani, with his poetry full of childlike admiration of nature, attracted attention at the age of 16, but it was only after his death that most of his poems were published and made him...
- George the HagioriteGeorge the HagioriteGeorge the Hagiorite – Giorgi Mt'ats'mindeli or Giorgi At'oneli – , was a Georgian monk, religious writer, and translator, who spearheaded the activities of Georgian monastic communities in the Byzantine Empire...
- Iakob GogebashviliIakob GogebashviliIakob Gogebashvili was a Georgian educator, children’s writer and journalist, considered to be the founder of the scientific pedagogy in Georgia...
- Parsadan GorgijanidzeParsadan GorgijanidzeP'arsadan Gorgijanidze was a Georgian factotum and historian who served at both the Georgian and Persian courts and is principally known for his informative chronicles The History of Georgia ....
- Levan GotuaLevan GotuaLevan Gotua was a Georgian writer.Gotua was born and died in Tbilisi and was best known for his historical novels. One of his most famous works was "Gmirta Varami", which is fueled by the writer's great love of his country and the rich history of Georgia....
- Terenti GraneliTerenti GraneliTerenti Kvirkvelia Terenti Kvirkvelia Terenti Kvirkvelia ((Georgian:ტერენტი კვირკველია), well known with his pen-name Terenti Graneli (Georgian:ტერენტი გრანელი)(1897-1934) was a noted Georgian poet. Born in Tsalenjikha, he was raised in the family of poor peasant. After graduating primary school in...
- Ioseb GrishashviliIoseb GrishashviliIoseb Grishashvili was a penname of Ioseb Mamulishvili was a noted poet and historian from Georgia. A history museum in Tbilisi is named for him.-References:...
- Petre GruzinskyPetre GruzinskyPetre Gruzinsky was a Georgian poet and an Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR . He was a direct descendant of the Kakhetian branch of the Bagrationi Dynasty, a former royal house of Georgia...
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- Alexander KazbegiAlexander KazbegiAlexander Kazbegi was a Georgian writer, famous for his 1883 novel The Patricide.Kazbegi was the great grandson of Kazibek Chopikashvili, a local feudal magnate who was in charge of collecting tolls on the Georgian Military Highway...
- Ana KalandadzeAna KalandadzeAna Kalandadze was a Georgian poetess and one of the most influential female figures in modern Georgian literature....
- Leo KiacheliLeo KiacheliLeo Kiacheli was a Georgian writer noted for the books Gvadi Bigva, Tavadis Kali Maya , Almasgir Kibulan, and Haki Adzba....
- David KldiashviliDavid KldiashviliDavid Kldiashvili was a Georgian prose-writer whose novels and plays are concentrated on the degeneration of the country’s gentry and the miseries of the peasantry, boldly exposing the antagonisms of Georgian society....
- Sergo KldiashviliSergo KldiashviliSergo Kldiashvili was a Georgian prose-writer who set out to be Symbolist but then was drawn to conformist Realist prose under Soviet rule....
- Nestan KvinikadzeNestan KvinikadzeNestan-Nene Kvinikadze , Georgian writer, scriptwriter and journalist. She is an author of numerous movie-scripts and plays. She has published numerous collections of prose fiction and one novel - Ispahan Nightingales. Since 2006 she is the editor-in-chief of monthly bilingual Nestan-Nene...
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- Alexander OrbelianiAlexander OrbelianiPrince Alexander Orbeliani was a Georgian Romanticist poet, playwright, journalist and historian, of the noble House of Orbeliani....
- David OrbelianiDavid OrbelianiDavid Orbeliani , monikered David "the General" was a Georgian military figure, politician, translator, and a poet of some talent....
- Grigol OrbelianiGrigol OrbelianiGrigol Orbeliani was a Georgian Romanticist poet and soldier in the Imperial Russian service. One of the most colorful figures in the 19th-century Georgian culture, Orbeliani is noted for his patriotic poetry, lamenting Georgia's lost past and independent monarchy...
- Sulkhan-Saba OrbelianiSulkhan-Saba OrbelianiPrince Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani was a Georgian prince, writer, monk and convert to Roman Catholicism.- Biography :...
- Vakhtang OrbelianiVakhtang OrbelianiVakhtang Orbeliani was a Georgian Romanticist poet and soldier in the Imperial Russian service, of the noble House of Orbeliani....
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- Galaktion TabidzeGalaktion TabidzeGalaktion Tabidze was a leading Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings profoundly influenced all subsequent generations of Georgian poets. He survived Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s, which claimed lives of many of his fellow writers, friends and relatives, but came under heavy...
- Titsian TabidzeTitsian TabidzeTitsian Tabidze was a Georgian poet and one of the leaders of Georgian symbolist movement. He fell victim to Stalin’s Great Purge, being arrested and executed on trumped-up charges of treason. Tabidze was a close friend of the well-known Russian writer Boris Pasternak who translated his poetry...
- Avksenty TsagareliAvksenty TsagareliAvksenty Tsagareli was a Georgian playwright particularly known for his comedies. He was described in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia as "one of the finest representatives of realistic drama."Tsagareli was born in the village of Digomi and initially studied at a seminary...
- Akaki TsereteliAkaki TsereteliPrince Ak'ak'i Tsereteli was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure.He was born in the village of Skhvitori on June 9, 1840 to the prominent Georgian aristocratic family. His father was Prince Rostom Tsereteli...
- Iakob TsurtaveliIakob TsurtaveliJacob of Tsurtavi also known as Jacob the Priest was the 5th-century Georgian religious writer and priest from Tsurtavi, then the major town of Gogarene and the Lower Iberia....
- David TurashviliDavid TurashviliDavid Turashvili is a Georgian fiction writer. In 1989, he was one of the leaders of the student protest action taking place at the Davidgareja monasteries in eastern Georgia, whose territory was exploited by the Soviet Union military as a training ground. His first novels, published in 1988,...
See also
- Republic of GeorgiaGeorgia (country)Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
- Culture of Georgia