George Maisuradze

Giorgi Maisuradze was born in 1970 in Tbilisi. He studied History, Philosophy, and the History of Culture in Tbilisi, Saarbrücken and Berlin Universities. He has worked at Berlin Literary and Culture Research Centre since 2008. Maisuradze received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Berlin Humboldt University in 2009. He has been Assistant Professor at Ilia Chavchavadze Tbilisi State University since 2010.

2012 – Saba Literary Prize for the Best Essays and Documentary Prose of the Year (The Closed Society and its Watchmen).

(Annotation) The whole series of minimalist novels written over the course of 6 years (between 1993–1998) based on the experiment started by the author while studying in Germany, which later continued in Georgia. The cycle of parody texts began with the first novel the 9th Symphony. The prototypes were the author’s friends, Georgians living with him in a small cottage in one of the German villages. While searching for new forms to express his ideas, the author had started an unintentional linguistic experiment – personal feelings and concrete stories connected with friends were developed by mixing them with the author’s favorite literary characters and plots. Notably, these were times when the author practically did not have any information on postmodernist literature.

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