Naira Gelashvili

Naira Gelashvili
Born	28 October 1947 Sighnaghi, Georgian SSR
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, Poet
Literary movement	Modernism, magical realism
Notable works	The Ambri, the Umbri and the Arab I am that One

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

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.^[1][2] Gelashvili has also studied folklore of the Caucasian peoples and heads the cultural NGO The Caucasian House.^[3]

Bibliography

Collections of Novels and Short Stories

• Mother’s Room (1987)
• Garden Lit by the Moon (1990)
• Tragic Gradation
• Hut of Dots
• Pieces of Mirror (2006)
• The Ambri, the Umbri and the Arab (1982)
• Short Stories
• I am that One (2012)

Poetic Collections

• About Peace, Sorrow and Consolation (Four poems, 1997)
• Time, Bread and Wine (A collection of verses, poems and songs, 2006)

Awards

• Literary Award “ Saba ” for the Best Novel of the Year “I am that One” (2013)
• Literary Award “Saba” for the Best Novel of the Year “The First Two Circles” (2013)

References

1. (Georgian) Naira Gelashvili. Sulakauri Publishers. Retrieved on 4 August 2008.
2. (Russian) Iatashvili, Shota (2004), О медовом месяце мотылька и хлебе насущном. Фрагменты мозаики новой грузинской прозы (On the moth’s honeymoon and the daily bread. Fragments of the new Georgian prose mosaic.). Druzhba Narodov №3. Retrieved on 4 August 2008.
3. Galtung Johan (1997), Some observations of the Caucasus. Caucasian Regional Studies, Vol. 2, Issue 1. Retrieved on 4 August 2008.