Otia Ioseliani

Otia ( Otija ) Iosseliani (Georgian ოტია იოსელიანი; born June 16, 1930 in Gwischtibi, Imereti, Georgia, † 14 July, 2011 Zqaltubo, Imereti, Georgia) was a Georgian writer and playwright.

Life

Otia Iosseliani studied at the Pedagogical Institute in Kutaisi Georgian language, literature and psychology, and later at the Art Academy.

In 1957 he published his first children's book, door neighbors. In 1960, an adventure book, The Adventures of a headless boy. 1959 to 1961 he took part in a course at the Moscow Institute of Literature, became a freelance writer. In the same year he published the novel Starfall and his play A man endures only once was premiered at the National Theatre in Tbilisi Rustaveli.

His works have been translated into 17 languages, including into English and German. Iosseliani lived with his partner in Gwischtibi at Zqaltubo in the region of Imereti.

Works

Stories

• Door neighbors, 1957
• The Adventures of a headless boy, 1960
• Short stories, 1960
• I and love, 1963
• Behind nine Bergen, 1963
• Narratives, 1967
• On the way to Mill, 1966
• Datschis fairytale, 1977
• The boy's adventure without a head, 1977
• New short stories, 1981
• Where I ran where I crashed, 1983
• Ten counteroffers, 1985
• Without way and without bar, 1991

Novels

• Starfall, 1961
• Prisoner of the prisoners, 1964
• There was once a woman, 1966
• The soldier has returned, 1967
• The black and the blue river, Part 1: 1976, Part 2: 1979
• The eye of the village
• The woman went out to deceive the man 1985

Dramas

• A man endures only once, in 1961
• By the time the carts were overturned in 1964
• Six old maids and a man