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Besik Kharanauli (IPA: [besikʼ χaɾanauli]; Georgian: ბესიკ ხარანაული; born 11 November 1939, in Tianeti) is a Georgian poet and writer.
Biography
Besik Kharanauli Born in 1939, Tianeti, Georgia. In 1962 he graduated Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University, the Department of Philology. After he worked the Literature and Art publishing hose and in the literary magazine Mnatobi.
Besik Kharanauli started his literary career in 1954. He is the author of more than twenty poetic collections and two novels.
Poetry by Besik Kharanauli is translated in German, Dutch, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian. In 2010 his long poem The book of Amba Besarion was published in France. In 2018 Poetry Collection by Besik Kharanauli 'Fünf Dichtungen' was translated and published by German Publishing House Dagyeli Verlag with support of the Georgian National Book Center, translated into German by Nana Chigladze and Norbert Hummelt.
In 2011 and 2015 Besik Kharanauli was nominated for the Nobel prize for literature by the Georgian government. In 2015 he won literary prize SABA for the Contribution to the Development of Georgian Literature.
= Books
=Translations from American, Intelekti Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-9941-454-33-2
Poems 2003 – 2013, Intelekti Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-9941-440-09-0
The Chief Gamer, Intelekti Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-9941-440-97-7
Poems 1954 – 2005, Intelekti, 2012
Epigraphs for Forgotten Dreams, Sulakauri, 2005; Palitra L, 2010
Sixty Knights Riding Mules, Sezane, 2010, ISBN 978-9941-0-2189-3
100 Poems, Intelekti, 2007, ISBN 978-99940-931-5-1
Two Pages about the Sky and Earth, 2005
Amba Besarion's Book, Arete, 2003, ISBN 99940-745-0-4
An Afternoon Book, Nakaduli, 1991, ISBN 5-525-00283-3
Verses, Poems, Merani, 1988
Dictate, Angelina!, Merani, 1985
Agonic, Merani, 1991
The Lame Doll, Merani, 1973
Prizes and awards
Literary award Saba, 2016
Literary Prize Litera, 2016
Honorary award Saba, 2015 for his Contribution to the Georgian Literature
Literary Prize GALA, 2012
President's Order of Eminence, 2010
Literary Award Saba, 2004
Shota Rustaveli State Prize, 2002
The State Prize of Georgia, 1992 for his Contribution to the Georgian Literature
References
External links
KHARANAULI BESIK
Death of My Grandmother
BESIK KHARANAULI
Besik Kharanauli – Poems
From THE LAME DOLL by Besik Kharanauli, translated by Timothy Kercher and Ani Kopaliani