KURASHVILI TSIRA

Born in 1962, in Baghdati, and graduated from Kutaisi Pedagogical Institute’s philology faculty, specialising in Georgian language and literature. She is both a philologist and a writer, has worked in the magazine Gantiadi (Dawn) as an editorial proof-reader, a literary worker and as head of the department. In 2004, together with a group of writers, she founded a literary and social newspaper Enigma, which has been published since 2006 as a magazine. In 1993 her poems were included in an anthology of Georgian youth poetry. In 1996 she published a collection of poems, Asphalt Flowers, in 1999 a book of fairy tales Christesia. In 2001, on her initiative, a writers joint collection of children’s poems, Lile (Svan choral song), was published. In 2002 the Literary Publishing of Caucasian House Alternative acknowledged her story Don’t Look Back as the best work of the year. In 2005 the story was included in the two-volume collection Woman, Image and Problem published by the Caucasian House. In 2006 she published a collection of poems Alphabetic Period, in 2008 a collection of stories and miniatures. In 2011 the Intelekti publishing house issued her collection of prose works Refugees by Komani Monastery.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • At Playtime, Intelekti Publishing, 2016 
  • The Paradise Window, Saunje Publishing, 2013 
  • The Refugees at Kumani Monastery, Intelekti Publishing, 2011 
  • Stories and Short Prose, 2008 
  • The Alphabetical Period, 2006 
  • Asphalt Flowers, Kutaisi, Sakartvelo, 1991 







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