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Name
  
Naira Gelashvili

Role
  
Fiction writer


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Born
  
28 October 1947 Sighnaghi, Georgian SSR (
1947-10-28
)

Occupation
  
Novelist, short story writer, Poet

Notable works
  
The Ambri, the Umbri and the Arab I am that One

Literary movement
  
Modernism, Magic realism

Naira Gelashvili (Georgian: ნაირა გელაშვილი) (born 28 October 1947) is a Georgian fiction writer, philologist, Germanist, and civil society activist.

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Information

Gelashvili graduated from the Faculty of Western European Literature, Tbilisi State University, in 1970. She has published a series of stories and the novel dedis otakhi (დედის ოთახი; "The Mother’s Room", 1985). She is one of the most ardent followers of European existentialist prose in modern Georgian literature. Gelashvili has also studied folklore of the Caucasian peoples and heads the cultural NGO The Caucasian House.

Awards

  • Literary prize “Saba” for the best novel of the year for "I am That One" (2013)
  • Literary prize “Saba” for the best novel of the year for “The First Two Circles and all the Others” (2010)
  • Ilia Chavchavadze State Prize for Artistic Work
  • Literary prize "Gala" for the best literary project for Rainer Maria Rilke (works in five volumes with commentaries) (2007)
  • Prize of Austrian Ministry of Culture for translations of R. M. Rilke works (1999)

    • References

    Naira Gelashvili Wikipedia
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