Nodar Dumbadze
| Nodar Dumbadze | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 14, 1928 Tbilisi |
| Died | September 4, 1984 Tbilisi |
| Resting place | Mtatsminda Pantheon |
| Occupation | Novelist, journalist |
| Language | Georgian |
| Nationality | Georgian |
| Alma mater | Tbilisi State University |
| Genre | Comic novel, Humour, Novel |
| Subject | Antimilitarism, Humanism |
| Notable works | Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I (1960) |
| Years active | 1960-1984 |
Nodar Dumbadze (Georgian: ნოდარ დუმბაძე) (July 14, 1928 – September 4, 1984) was a Georgian writer and one of the most popular authors in the late 20th-century Georgia.
Born in Tbilisi, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Tbilisi State University in 1950. The same year, his first poems and humorous stories appeared in the Georgian press. He edited the satirical magazine Niangi from 1967 until 1972 when he became a secretary of the Union of Georgian Writers and a member of the presidium of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1972. Most of his fame came through his novels Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarioni (მე, ბებია, ილიკო და ილარიონი; 1960), I Can See the Sun (მე ვხედავ მზეს; 1962), The Sunny Night (მზიანი ღამე; 1967), Don’t Be Afraid, Mother! (ნუ გეშინია, დედა!; 1971), The White Banners (თეთრი ბაირაღები; 1973), and The Law of Eternity (მარადისობის კანონი; 1978). His works are remarkable for simplicity and lyricism of the prose, humor, and melancholy coupled with optimism. He was awarded the Shota Rustaveli State Prize in 1975 and the Lenin Prize in 1980. Most of his major works have been dramatized and/or filmed. He died in Tbilisi and was buried there, at the Children’s Town "Mziuri" founded by him. In September 2009, he was reburied to the Mtatsminda Pantheon.
Nodar Dumbadze's first works published in 1956-1957 - three books of humorous stories. After this in 1957 he gave up his lab work to immerse himself fully in a literary career. He worked in the editorial departments of various journals and in the screenwriting division of Kartuli Pilmi.
He continued to publish humorous stories and published the collection "Village Boy" in 1959. He scored a major success with the largely semi-autobiographical novel Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I (1960). The novel is set in a Georgian village during the years of World War II. All able-bodied men are off at the war front, leaving only women and elderly men behind. At the center of the novel, is a young orphan Zurikela, his grandmother, and two sharp-tongued but wise and generous elderly neighbors who help watch over the boy.
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