Naira Gelashvili

Naira Gelashvili
Born (1947-10-28)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.

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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.[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

Poetic Collections

Awards

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.


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