Ushangi Rizhinashvili ——
Author of several collections of poems and stories. The book HOME tells about our contemporaries. The destinies of people, their life paths, even those not marked by outstanding events, appear in U. Rizhinashvili’s book as full of intense meaning, and sometimes hidden drama.
Read the poems«Дом»: повести и рассказы. Moscow: Sovetsky Pisatel, 1981; second edition 1984.
Published in ——
At a glance ——
✓ Znamya magazine prize, 1982, for the novella «Шакро»
✓ Prize of the VTsSPS and the USSR Writers' Union for «Дом» and «Шакро»
✓ Books published in Kharkov, Tbilisi, Moscow and Jerusalem
The books ——
He began as a poet in Kharkov in the 1960s, turned to prose in Tbilisi in the 1970s and 1980s, and returned to poetry in the United States. Six books mark the way.
1964
The first book of poems. Prapor, Kharkov.
1987
Novellas and stories, opening with the prize-winning «Шакро».
1978
Poems, the long poem «Франсуа Вийон» and stories.
1987
A book of poems. Sovetsky Pisatel, Moscow.
1981
Novellas and stories; second edition 1984.
2008
Poems of different years. Filobiblon, Jerusalem.
Critics ——
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«Стихи и проза грузинского писателя Ушанги Рижинашвили, пишущего по-русски, полнятся внутренней энергией. Его отношение к миру темпераментно, страстно, приподнято.»
Татьяна Бек · «Литературное обозрение», 1989
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«У. Рижинашвили многогранен. Впервые выступив со стихами …, он совершенно определенно пришел к прозе как автор и как переводчик.»
Роман Миминошвили · «Русские писатели в Грузии», 1983
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«Рижинашвили чуток к замкнутым сферам. … Квеври, колодец, стены дома, стены двора, стены кухни.»
Лев Аннинский · «Дружба народов», 1984, № 2
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«В повестях У. Рижинашвили причудливо переплетены современность и история.»
В. Новиков · «Новый мир», 1983, № 12
About author ——
Poet, prose writer, translator
Born in Kutaisi in 1940, he graduated from Kharkov State University, earned his degree in philosophy in Moscow and worked in Tbilisi as a writer, translator and editor-in-chief of the Merani publishing house. His novella «Шакро» won the Znamya magazine prize for 1982. He lives in Los Angeles and continues to write poetry.
Full biographyBooks, 1964–2008
Novels translated from Georgian
Literary prizes in 1982
Years of writing
Born on 22 June 1940 in Kutaisi, Georgia. Graduated from Kharkov State University in 1964 and completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Philosophy in Moscow in 1970.
Poetry and prose in Russian. First poems printed in 1957, first book in 1964. The novella «Шакро» won the Znamya magazine prize for 1982 and appeared in English in Soviet Literature in 1984.
Novels by Grigol Chikovani, Guram Panjikidze, Tamaz Bibiluri and Revaz Japaridze, from Georgian into Russian. He served as editor-in-chief of the Merani publishing house in Tbilisi.
In Los Angeles. His collected poems, «Годы & города», came out in Jerusalem in 2008, and new poems appear in «Слово\Word», «Новый Журнал» and «Чайка».
