Otia Iosseliani

Otia (Otija) Iosseliani ( Georgia იოსელიანი ოტია * 16th June 1930 in Gwischtibi, Imereti , Georgia ; † 14. July 2011 in Tsqaltubo , Imereti, Georgia) was a Georgian writer and playwright .

Life

Otia Iosseliani studied Georgian language , literature and psychology at the Pedagogical Institute in Kutaisi , and later at the Art Academy.

In 1957 he published his first children's book, Door Neighbors . An adventure book followed in 1960, The Adventures of a Headless Boy . From 1959 to 1961 he took part in a course at the Moscow Literature Institute , became a freelance writer. In the same year he published the novel Sternenfall and his play A Man Endures That Only Once was premiered at the Rustaveli State Theater in Tbilisi .

His works have been translated into 17 languages, including German and English. Iosseliani lived with his partner in Gwishtibi near Tskaltubo in the Imereti region .

Works

stories

• Door neighbors , 1957
• The Adventures of a Headless Boy , 1960
• Novellas , 1960
• Me and love , 1963
• Behind nine mountains , 1963
• Stories , 1967
• On the way to the mill , 1966
• Datschi's fairy tales , 1977
• The Adventures of the Headless Boy , 1977
• New novellas , 1981
• Where I ran, where I fell , 1983
• Ten Counterbids , 1985
• Without a path and without a bridge , 1991

Novels

• Starfall , 1961
• Prisoner of the Prisoners , 1964
• Once upon a time there was a woman , 1966
• The soldier has returned , 1967
• The Black and Blue Rivers , Part 1: 1976, Part 2: 1979
• The eye of the village
• The woman went out to cheat on the man in 1985

Dramas

• A man endures this only once , in 1961
• Until the cart overturned , 1964
• Six spinsters and a man

Web links

• CV Otia Iosselianis (en)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ოტია იოსელიანი გარდაიცვალა (Georgian, sighted July 15, 2011)