Tamaz Chiladze (born in 1931) is a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 writer

Writer

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, dramatist and poet

Poet

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. He is the elder brother of a Georgian writer Otar Chiladze

Otar Chiladze

Otar Chiladze was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of the Georgian prose in the post-Stalin era. His novels characteristically fuse Sumerian and Hellenic mythology with the predicaments of a modern Georgian intellectual...

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Biography

Chiladze was born to the family of an economist and a writer in 1931 in Batumi

Batumi

Batumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. Sometimes considered Georgia's second capital, with a population of 121,806 , Batumi serves as an important port and a commercial center. It is situated in a subtropical zone, rich in...

, Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

. He graduated from Department of Philology of Tbilisi State University

Tbilisi State University

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University , better known as Tbilisi State University , is a university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region...

 in 1954. Same year, Chiladze published his first collection of poems. Ciskari magazine printed his first story Taking the Walk with the Pony Phaeton. In 1965, his play The Aquarium was staged at the Rustaveli Theater

Rustaveli Theatre

Rustaveli National Theatre also referred to as Rustaveli State Drama Theatre, is found in Tbilisi, Georgia. The theatre is conveniently located at 17 Rustaveli Avenue, one of the main streets in Tbilisi...

. He had since been recognized as the author of the anthology of Georgian classical dramaturgy. According to the author, first critic of his writings was his mother who was a poetess herself.

Works and Awards

Chiladze's works have been translated into different languages. He was awarded with several prizes, among them Shota Rustaveli National Prize and First Prize of West German Broadcasting for the radio-play The Paradise Quartet. In 1999, he was nominated for the title of the Outstanding Person of the Year by the English International Biographic Centre of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Novels

• The Wander by Pont Cart, Winter is Over
• The Pond, The Sunset Lights
• The Breigel Moon

Plays

• The Debutante’s Role
• The Eighth Floor Nest
• The Aroma Grass of Arabia
• The Day We Met
• The Farewell to Lions