Naira Gelashvili

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Name Naira Gelashvili Role Fiction writer

Born 28 October 1947Sighnaghi, 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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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.

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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)

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