Nodar Dumbadze

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Nodar Dumbadze (also Nodar Dumbadze , Georgian ნოდარ დუმბაძე ; * July 14, 1928 in Tbilisi ; † September 4, 1984 ibid) was a Georgian writer.

Life

Dumbadse's father, a high party official, was killed in the course of the political cleansing in 1937 and his mother was exiled to Siberia . Dumbadze therefore grew up with his grandmother.

From 1945 to 1950 he studied economics at the State University of Tbilisi . After successfully completing his degree, he worked as a laboratory assistant at the Chair of Economic Planning.

From 1967 to 1972 he was editor of the satirical magazine Niangi ("Crocodile"). He was a member of the Writers 'Union of the USSR and the Georgian Writers ' Union , which he chaired from 1981 to 1984.

Dumbadze received the Komsomol Prize in 1962 , the Shota Rustaveli State Prize in 1975 and the Lenin Prize in 1980 .

His works have been translated into numerous languages, including Russian, French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Japanese and two novels and some short stories into German (see below).

Works

  • 1956: Attention, we start with morning exercises (stories)
  • 1957: The Gladiator (short stories)
  • 1960: Be blessed (poems), The village boy (stories), Grandmother Iliko, Ilarion and I (novel, made into a film in 1962)
  • 1962: I see the sun (novel, filmed in 1965) (German: Berlin 1968; 1970; Vienna 1968; Jestetten 2019)
  • 1967: Sonnennacht (novel) (German excerpt: In: Zchwedadze, M. Georgische Dichter in German language, Tbilisi 1993)
  • 1971: Don't be afraid mom (novel, made into a film in 1972)
  • 1973: White Flags (novel)
  • 1976: The Law of Eternity (novel) (German: Berlin, Weimar 1983)
  • 1981: Kukaracha ( short stories)

Some narratives like

  • Hund (including in: S. Chotiwari-Jünger: Georgische Kurzgeschichten, Hamburg 2016, pp. 30–64, magazine "Freie Welt" 1981),
  • Chasarula (In: N. Gelaschwili: Georgische Erzählungen, Frankfurt 2000. pp. 31-40),
  • That drinking horn (In: Der verirrte Autobus, Berlin 186, pp. 87-97)
  • The little bird (In: A. Möckel: A tub full of caviar. Berlin 1983, pp. 81–95)
  • Kukaratscha (In: The last conversation. Berlin 1985, pp. 242–317)
  • Teufeleien (In: S. Chotiwari-Jünger: The distant white summit. Berlin 1984, pp. 215-224)

published in German in various magazines and narrative anthologies.

literature

  • Steffi Chotiwari-Jünger: Social-philosophical statement and artistic peculiarities in Nodar Dumbadse's novel "The Law of Eternity" 1978, In: Zeitschrift Georgica , Jena, 6 (1983), pp. 33-38
  • Naira Gelaschwili: Georgische Erzählungen Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39522-X , pp. 290-291.

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personal data
SURNAME Dumbadze, Nodar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dumbadze, Nodar; დუმბაძე, ნოდარ (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1984
Place of death Tbilisi , Soviet Union