Nodar Dumbadze

Nodar Dumbadze, born in 1928 in Tbilisi, was nine years old when his father, secretary of a district committee, was shot and his mother sent to a camp; he grew up with his grandparents in the village of Khidistavi, in Guria, and did not see his mother again until 1946. A graduate of the faculty of economics of Tbilisi University, a laboratory assistant for a few years, he devoted himself to letters from 1957, edited the satirical magazine Niangi from 1965 to 1973, and was secretary, then from 1981 until his death chairman, of the Georgian writers' union. He died in Tbilisi in 1984, aged fifty-six.

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• NovelI See the Sunმე ვხედავ მზესNodar Dumbadze · 1962Literature