Nodar Dumbadze
Nodar Dumbadze (also Nodar Dumbadze, georgian ნოდარ დუმბაძე; * July 14, 1928 in Tbilisi, † September 4, 1984 ) was a Georgian writer.
Life
Dumbadses father, a senior party official, arrived at in the course of political purges in 1937, his mother was exiled to Siberia. Therefore Dumbadze raised by his grandmother.
From 1945 to 1950, he studied Economics at Tbilisi State University. Upon successful completion, he worked as a laboratory assistant at the Chair of Economic Planning.
From 1967 to 1972 he was editor of the satirical magazine niangi ( "Crocodile" ). He was a member of the Writers 'Union of the USSR and the Georgian Writers' Union, which he headed from 1981 to 1984.
Dumbadze was awarded the 1962 prize of the Komsomol, 1975 Shota Rustaveli State Prize, and in 1980 the Lenin Prize.
His works have been translated into many languages, including Russian, French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Japanese and into German. In German published the novel are I see the sun (Berlin 1968), the story of The Dog ( magazine Free World, 1981), the novel The Law of Eternity ( Berlin 1983) and the narrative Chasarula (Frankfurt am Main, 2000)