Zaza Burchuladze
Zaza Burchuladze ( Georgian : ზაზა ბურჭულაძე, Sasa Burtschuladze ; born September 9, 1973 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR ) is a postmodern Georgian writer , playwright and translator who exiled to Berlin .
Life
Burchuladze studied art studies and painting at the State Academy of Arts in Tbilisi . Since 1998 he has published short stories and essays in Georgian newspapers and magazines. Until 2001 he published in Georgia under the author's pseudonym Gregor Samsa, an allusion to the famous story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka . In 2007 he played a leading role in the film Jako's Dispossessed , the film adaptation of a novel by Mikheil Javachishvili .
He has translated numerous classics and contemporary fiction from Russian into Georgian, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Daniil Charms . Some of his novels have been published in French, English, Polish and Russian. His novel Inflatable Angel won the 2011 Ilia University Literature Prize for “Best Novel of the Year”. In 2014 he was invited to the “Nuit de la Littérature” in Paris.
Burchuladze is considered one of the most important contemporary Georgian authors in his home country. However, he left his hometown for Germany in early 2014 after his life and limb was threatened in Tbilisi. Religious extremists publicly burned his novels and essays, he was attacked and beaten on the street and the then Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili berated him on a news program.
Zaza Burchuladze has lived in Berlin since January 2014 .
Works
- 1997: Two Candies , Roman, (as Gregor Zamza)
- 1998: The Third Candy , Short Stories, (as Gregor Zamza)
- 1999: You , Roman, (as Gregor Zamza)
- 2000: With Soul , (as Gregor Zamza)
- 2001: Simpsons , novel
- 2002: A Letter to Mother
- 2003: Mineral Jazz , Roman
- 2004: Gospel According to Donkey , Roman
- 2005: Instant Kafka , short story
- 2007: The Other Key , children's film script
- 2007: Phonogram , collection of short stories
- 2008: Passive Attack , Roman
- 2009: Adibas , Roman
- 2015: Adibas , Roman, from the Georgian by Anastasia Kamarauli with the collaboration of Tom Müller, Blumenbar Verlag , Berlin 2015. 189 pp. ISBN 978-3-351-05021-4
- 2010: Instant Kafka , short story collection
- 2011: Inflatable Angel , Roman
- 2018: The inflatable angel , novel, from the Georgian by Maia Tabukashvili, Blumenbar Verlag , Berlin 2018. 192 pp. ISBN 978-3-351-05058-0
- 2015: Turistis sauzme , novel
- 2017: Tourist breakfast , novel, from the Georgian by Natia Mikeladse-Bachsoliani, Blumenbar Verlag , Berlin 2017. 176 pp. ISBN 978-3-351-05036-8
Awards
- 2003: Tsinandali Literature Prize for Mineral Jazz
- 2008: Bakur Sulakauri Literature Prize for Passive Attack
- 2011: Ilia State University Award for Inflatable Angel
- 2018: Brücke Berlin literature and translator award (together with the translator) for tourist breakfast
Web links
- Literature by and about Zaza Burchuladze in the catalog of the German National Library
- Zaza Burchuladze: "Adibas" - Badly dressed for the pop war , Deutschlandradio Kultur, November 26, 2015
- Award and publication list of the Georgian works of Burchuladze in English , Translationlab Georgia
supporting documents
- ↑ Georgian literature in translations (PDF) , Georgian National Book Center 2014
- ↑ Radical author Burchuladze: Hardcore, this hedonism! , Review of the novel Adibas in Der Spiegel of November 11, 2015, accessed December 5, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burchuladze, Zaza |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burčulaże, Zaza; Burčulaje, Zaza; Gregor Zamza (pseudonym); Burtschuladze, Sasa (Georgian, transcribed) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi , Georgian SSR |