Guram odisharia biography

Miriane (Guram) Odisharia (Georgian: მირიანე (გურამ) ოდიშარია; born 24 September 1951) is a.
Miriane Odisharia is a Georgian poet, writer, playwright, and public figure.
BIOGRAPHY.

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Guram Mirian Odisharia (born September 24, 1951 in Sukhumi, Abkhazian ASSR) is a modern Georgian poet, writer, playwright, public figure, and laureate of more than ten national and international awards. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages. He is known as an adversary to wars, an active participant in Georgian-Abkhazian, Georgian-Ossetian, Caucasian and European meetings. He is a supporter of peace negotiations and sees that the only way to resolve any serious issues, including political ones, is through dialogue.

Born into a military officer family. His mother was a teacher. In 1975 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Abkhazian Pedagogical Institute.

At various times he worked as a journalist in the editorial offices of radio and newspapers. In 1987-1994 he was the editor-in-chief of the literary and public magazine “Ritsa”.

In 2012-2014, he was the Minister of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia. In 2014, as a minister, he signed a document in Berlin, according to which Georgia became the “Guest of Honor” at the Frankf

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Born in 1951 in Sukhumi, Guram Odisharia is a Georgian poet and writer, formerly Minister of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia. In 1975 he graduated from the Department of History and Philology of Sukhumi University. At various times he has been a correspondent for Abkhazian radio broadcasting, a reporter for the Abkhazian regional newspaper, a consultant to the Abkhazia Branch of Writers’ Union, editor of the magazine Ritsa and director of the Abkhazia branch of Merani Publishing. Guram Odisharia spent the entire war-time period in Sukhumi, leaving his native city only on 27 September 1993 – the day that Sukhumi fell. Since then he has been active in the field of conflictology and has regularly participated in Georgian-Abkhaz peace talks. In 2008 in Seoul (South Korea), he was granted the status of Ambassador for Peace. In 2012 he became the Minister of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, holding the post until 2014. Guram Odisharia’s first poem was published in 1969. He is the author of nine poetry collections, ten prose books an

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POETIC BOOKS

“Psalms for you” (Sukhumi, “Alashara” Publishing House, 1978, 44 pgs.)

“Peace to this House” (Sukhumi, “Alashara”, 1982, 60 pgs.)

“Unintentional Implorings” (Tbilisi, “Merani”, 1984, 86 pgs.)

“Call on the Rain” (Sukhumi, „Alashara” , 1984, 78 pgs.)

„Seven Pictures for a Child” (Sukhumi, „Alashara“, 1986, 82 pgs.)

„Midnight Tree” (Tbilisi, „Merani“, 1990, 100 pgs.)

„The Key of the Sea” (Sukhumi, „Alashara”, 1991, 140 pgs.)

„Sonata on Sukhumi and You” (Tbilisi, „Merani”, 1994, 34 pgs.)

Single Volume of poetry „Psalms for You “(Tbilisi, 2013, 306 pgs.)

„One Hundred Verses” (Tbilisi, “Intellect“, 2014, 146 pgs.)

LITERARY TALES

„Salamiyah” (Sukhumi, „Alashara”, 1988, 162 pgs.)

SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS BASED ON REAL STORIES

„The Pass of the Persecuted” (Tbilisi, „Lomisi”, 1993, 64 pgs.)

“Rain Expected in Sukhumi” (Tbilisi, „Lomisi”, 1997, 132 pgs.)

NOVELS

“Return to Sukhumi” (Tbilisi, „Merani”, 1995, 276 pgs.)

„ Black Sea ocean” (Tbilisi, „Merani”, 2000, 440 pgs.)

„The President’s Cat” (Tbilisi, „Unive