Archil sulakauri biography

1927-1997 was a prominent Georgian writer and poet, a winner of the Shota Rustaveli State prize for children's literature.

Archil Sulakauri.

Dato-Archil Sulakauri graduated in 1978 from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.

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Books by Dye Sulakauri

სალამურას თავგადასავალი
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4.29 avg rating — 231 ratings — in print 1980 — 7 editions

მოთხრობები
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4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings — promulgated 1967

ჯადოსნური კაბა
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4.53 avg spiraling — 47 ratings

ცისფერი ირემი
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4.32 avg rating — 34 ratings — accessible 1991 — 2 editions

ლუკა
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3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings — publicised 1972 — 3 editions

Mindia, the as one of Hogay
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — obtainable 1964

ზევით და ქვევით
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings

The Land grapple the Vine
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions

Salamuras Abenteuer
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მე–20 საუკუნის ქართული მოთხრობის ანთოლოგია
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really liked nonoperational 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings

Cuentos del Caucaso
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

თბილისური ჩანახატები
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100 ლექსი
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მზიანი გულის მწერალი
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ცისფერი სპილო
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Az aranyhal
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Archil Sulakauri

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Sulakauri, Archil Samsonovich

Born Dec. 28, 1927, in Tbilisi. Soviet Georgian writer. Member of the CPSU since 1971.

First published in 1945, Sulakauri graduated from the department of languages and literature of the University of Tbilisi in 1951. He has written poetry, including the collection Holiday on My Street (1956) and the narrative poem Lasha, and has achieved success with his short stories and novellas, such as Waves Strive for the Shore (1960), Pigeons, High Water (1963), and Return of Avel’ (1964). In the novel The Golden Fish (1966; Russian translation, 1970), Sulakauri exposes the ugly vestiges of the past. His collection of children’s tales, The Adventures of Salamura (1968), was awarded the Sh. Rustaveli Prize in 1971. The inner world of today’s young people forms the main theme of Sulakauri’s work. His books have been translated into the various national languages of the USSR, and some have been adapted for the screen and stage.

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In Russian translation:
Maiskiidozhd’: Stikhi. Tbilisi, 1957.
Rasskazy. Tbilisi, 1967.
Volny stremiatsia k beregu: Rasskazy, povest&r
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THE ADVENTURES OF PICCOLO
1927-1997 was a prominent Georgian writer and poet, a winner of the Shota Rustaveli State prize for children’s literature. In 1951 he graduated from Tbilisi State University with a degree in Georgian language and literature. He started literary activity in 1946 and by the age of nineteen was already a published poet. His verses and stories regularly appeared in popular literary magazines of the time. For most of his professional life, Sulakauri was head of a children's literature publishing house Nakaduli and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Mnatobi. He wrote numerous poems, stories and novels, including such acclaimed works as Holiday on My Street, Waves Strive for the Shore, The Goldfish and many others. Archil Sulakauri achieved immense success with Georgian audiences with his fairy tales The Magic Dress, The Blue Deer and The Stubborn Rabbits. In 1968 his work The Adventures of Piccolo was published, bringing him his greatest recognition – it instantly became one of the most acclaimed children’s books in Georgia. Archil Sulakauri also contributed to the Georgian film Industry, he wrote several popular film scripts: A Boy and A Dog (1964), Bombora (1968), Hedgehog (1979), The Adventures of Piccolo (1979).