Dato Turashvili (დათო ტურაშვილი)

source: http://reportiori.ge/?menuid=3&id=1580

Novelist, playwright, screewriter. His famous novel "Jeans Generation" (ჯინსების თაობა) is based on the true story of young people who attempted to hijack a plane in 1983 in order to fly to the West. His last novel "King of Forests" (ტყეების მეფე) is also set to the past and it tells the story of King David the Builder (David IV of Georgia). Activ in students' protests and the Rose Revolution (2003).

Teona Dolenjashvili (თეონა დოლენჯაშვილმა)

source: http://radio1.ge/media-view/8748

Teona “is regarded as one of Georgia’s most promising young authors.“ (http://gratzfeld.ch/pages/en/authors/ teonadolendschaschwili.php) Her first work, collection of stories named "River of January" (იანვრის მდინარე), was published in 2003 and her novel "Memfisi" in 2008. She uses very interesting poetic images and symbols and she won various prices for her books.

Gela Chkvanava (გელა ჩქვანავა) 

source: http://www.diogene.ge/ka/authors/author/12

Representant of young authors affected by war in Abkhazia. According to his biography, he still has a lot to say about war (http://gratzfeld.ch/media/Chkvanava_Bio2.pdf). Sokhumi native, who lives in Tbilisi now as his house burned down, together with his manuscripts, summarizes his experience in books such as "Toreadors", "The Unfinished Story" (დაუმთავრებელი ამბავი) or "Ase" (ასე).

Beso Khvedelidze (ბესო ხვედელიძე) 

source: http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00000119/

Beso wrote 13 books and many short stories and plays. He is known as one of the biggest experimentators in the language field – not only uses he dialects but also mixes different language standards. He is said to be very talented and able to write stories of many various kinds – he is not delimitated by one topic and thanks to his fantasy, heroes of his works are very diverse.

Lasha Bugadze (ლაშა ბუგაძე) 

source: http://burusi.wordpress.com/literature/lasha-bugadze/

Lasha is an author of numerous novels and plays. “Bughadze focuses his critical and ironic attention on inter-generational relationships and describes situations in which people fall victim to their prejudices, rigid ideas or stereotypes.“ (http://gratzfeld.ch/pages/en/authors/
laschabughadse.php) His last work is "The Literature Express" (ლიტერატურული ექსპრესი) but he firstly drew attention with a scandalous story - "The First Russian" (პირველი რუსი). “Novel on Queen Tamar led to an uproar for its graphic portrayal of intimacy between the Georgian queen and her Russian husband” (http://rustaveli.tripod.com/lithistory.html), Yury Bogolyubsky – the prince of Novgorod. The story “outraged many conservatives and triggered a nationwide controversy, including heated discussions in the media, the Parliament of Georgia and the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church.“(Spurling, A.: The Georgian Literary Scene, International Pen, PEN Bulletin of Selected Books 53-54, 2003) Author himself declares that he had been led by satanic forces during his work on this story and that is why the book starts in the end and readers are forced to read it in the wrong way.

Zaza Burchuladze (ზაზა ბურჭულაძე)

source: http://ka.wikipedia.org/

In the beginning, he published under the pseudonym Gregor Samsa. His books are written in a postmodern manner and topics are, at least for some people, immoral. In his novel "The Simpsons" he provides readers with famous cartoon heroes' opinion on homosexuality. In his other novel, he shows a disrespect and hatrede towards his own mother. His last novel, "The Inflatable Angel" (გასაბერი ანგელოზი), dealing with spiritism, became the book of the year 2011 in Georgia. His books were publicly burnt by religious activists because of scandalous topics they dealt with and language experiments.

Davit Kartvelishvili (დავით ქართველიშვილი)

source: http://burusi.wordpress.com/literature/david-kartvelishvili/

Davit is author of four novels and many short stories, characteristic for their dynamic plot. He works with a wide range of topics – from sentimental pictures from the 19th century to nowadays life and manners. His writings are ifluenced by the Orthodox Church.

Diana Vachnadze (დიანა ვაჩნაძე), Shota Yatashvili (შოთა ჯათაშვილი)

Diana entered the literature as an author of erotic lyric poetry and later, she surprised the audience with her novel "Nata or New Juliet" (ნატა ანუ ახალი ჟიული). The book consists of heroine's letters, poetry, dreams, different authors' essays and, as the novel was published in instalments, reviews on book itself. One literary critic has even become one of her literary characters. There is one more interesting thing regarding Vachnadze – Diana Vachnadze is just a pseudonym and the real author's name is Shota Yatashvili (http://magazines.russ.ru/druzhba/2004/3/iat23.html), a famous poet and laureate of many literary awards. He is also famous for his writing "Sick City", a shocking story about a young murderer in a city which is infected with a horrible disease.

Zurab Karumidze (ზურაბ ქარუმიძე)

source: http://www.7days.ge/index2.php?cstart=5&
do=cat&category=literature

His books, written in a modern way, are even similar to the writings of James Joyce. As a literary scientist, he dedicated his research to postmodern American metafiction, which is noticeable also in his works. His last work is "Dagny or A Love Feast", partly historical and partly a fiction work, showings Tbilisi as the city between the East and the West, mythical and mythological.

Aka Morchiladze (აკა მორჩილაძე)

source: http://www.rustveli.com/resources/
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One of the most popular authors of historical novels. There are many traces of Western influences noticeable in his best-sellers. His writings can be divided into two parts: first of them are historical novels set to Georgia at the turn of 19th and 20th century, he uses postmodern methods in these novels though. Detective stories belong to the second group and because of these works, he is often compared to Russian Akunin. He uses interesting vocabulary in his works, from Anglicisms to Russianisms, from teenagers' slang to professional jargon and believes that a novel does not necessarily need to start at the beginning and proceed in a straight line to the end. To give an example of his writings, we can mention "Santa Esperanza" (non-linear novel), "Mesaidumlis Kamari" (მესაიდუმლის ქამარი) or "Obolé".

Otar Chiladze (ოთარ ჭილაძე)

source: http://motsra.files.wordpress.com/2010/
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An elderly author inspired by the new era to write something new. He published his well-known novel "Avelum" (აველუმი) in 1995. This very personal work (however we can not fully identify the hero with the author) tells a story about a writer “whose private ‘empire of love’ collapses with the ‘empire of evil’“ (http://agenda.ge/article/449/eng). Chiladze published his next work "Godori" (გოდორი) in 2003.