Besik Kharanauli


Besik Kharanauli is a Georgian poet and writer.
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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 'Sprich mir vor, Angelina! Fünf Poeme' was translated and published by German Publishing House Dağyeli Verlag with support of the Georgian National Book Center, translated into German by Nana Chigladze and Norbert Hummelt. A second title 'Das Buch des Amba Besarion' was translated in German by Julia Dengg and published 2021 by Dağyeli Verlag.
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, Poems 2003 – 2013, Intelekti Publishing, 2013, The Chief Gamer, Intelekti Publishing, 2012, Poems 1954 – 2005, Intelekti, 2012Epigraphs for Forgotten Dreams, Sulakauri, 2005; Palitra L, 2010Sixty Knights Riding Mules, Sezane, 2010, 100 Poems, Intelekti, 2007, Two Pages about the Sky and Earth, 2005Amba Besarion's Book, Arete, 2003, An Afternoon Book, Nakaduli, 1991, Verses, Poems, Merani, 1988Dictate, Angelina!, Merani, 1985Agonic, Merani, 1991The Lame Doll, Merani, 1973

Prizes and awards