დღეს ჩვენი გმირი და პატრიოტი მამულიშვილი,ლევან ხაბეიშვილი იუბილარია! გილოცავთ ხაბე დაბადების დღეს! გისურვებთ ჯამრთელობას, ბედნიერებას და გამარჯვებას! მალე თავისუფლება,რეჟიმის ყველა ტყვეებს!
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RATIANI ZVIAD
Zviad Ratiani
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zviad Ratiani
Born Zviad Ratiani
January 5, 1971 (age 55)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Occupation Poet, Translator
Genre Poetry
Literary movement Modernism
Notable works Only You are Allowed, 2015
Children Nina, Lexo
Zviad Ratiani (IPA: [zviad ɾat
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RATIANI ZVIAD
Zviad Ratiani
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zviad Ratiani
Born Zviad Ratiani
January 5, 1971 (age 55)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Occupation Poet, Translator
Genre Poetry
Literary movement Modernism
Notable works Only You are Allowed, 2015
Children Nina, Lexo
Zviad Ratiani ( Georgian: ზვიად რატიანი; born 5 January 1971, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian poet[1] and translator.
Zviad Ratiani was born in 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia.[2] He has been contributing to the Georgian literary printed media since 1992. As of 2015,[when?] he has published five poetry collections and simultaneously has intensively worked on translations of English and German poetry.
Among numerous translations Zviad Ratiani has introduced to Georgian readers are poetic works by T.S. Eliot, E. Pound, R. Frost, M. Rilke, and Paul Celan; for the last one, Ratiani received the Goethe Institute Prize for the best translation of the year.
Ratiani's poems have been translated into English, German, French, Russian, Azerbaijani, Ukrainian, Latvian, and other languages. His poetry has been published in several anthologies among them: Ich aber will dem Kaukasos zu...[3] - Pop Verlag 2015, Germany; Aus der Ferne (Neue Georgische Lyrik),[4] Corvinus Presse 2016, Germany.
Ratiani has been the recipient of numerous literary awards.
Police harassment and arrests
On 29 November 2024, during the 2024 Georgian post-election protests, Ratiani was dragged through the street, taken into a police car and repeatedly beaten during both the dragging and in the car.[1] After his release, he was attacked close to his home by unidentified individuals.[5]
On June 23, 2025, Ratiani was again arrested during a pro-democracy protest.[6][7][8][5] Various international organizations, including the PEN Centre Georgia and the PEN Centre Germany expressed their alarm over the renewed detention in June 2025. PEN Germany stated that it is "very concerned about Ratiani's physical and mental well-being, also in view of the serious abuse he suffered during his last arrest."[9]
Works
Books
Only You are Allowed, Diogene Publishing, 2015
The Negative, Diogene Publishing, 2009
The Roads and the Days, Arete Publishing, 2005
The Pocket Air, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2000
The Whisper Tutorial, Lomisi Publishing House, 1994
Invent Me, Lomisi Publishing House, 1993
Translations
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land, Tbilisi, Intlekti Publishing House, 2013, ISBN 978-9941446863
Prizes and awards
Literary prize LITERA in the category The Best Poetry Collection for Only You are Allowed, 2016
Literary Award SABA in category the best poetry collection for The Negative, 2010
VAZHA PSHAVELA festival prize for the book Roads and Days, 2005
ARILI magazine prize for book-length poem Moving Target, 2000
Literary prize BESTSELLER for the poem Fathers, 1999
Georgian Writer’s Union prize in 1996 and 1998 in the category The Best Poetry Publication of the Year
References
Georgia: Brutal Police Violence Against Protesters, Human Rights Watch, 24 December 2024, Wikidata Q131550176, archived from the original on 24 December 2024
"Zviad Ratani - INTELEKTI public". intelekti. Archived from the original on 16 September 2024. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
'Ich aber will dem Kaukasos zu...'
'Aus der Ferne. Neue Georgische Lyrik.'
"PEN GEORGIA STATEMENT REGARDING THE ARREST OF POET AND TRANSLATOR ZVIAD RATIANI". პენ საქართველო. 25 June 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
"Violence Diary: Zviad Ratiani's Story". www.freiheit.org. 20 January 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
"MIA says poet Zviad Ratiani was arrested for assaulting a police officer". Georgia Today. Georgia Today. 24 June 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
"Poet Zviad Ratiani Detained, MIA Says for Assaulting Police Officer". Civil Georgia. 24 June 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
"PEN Deutschland alarmiert über erneute Inhaftierung von Zviad Ratiani". PEN-ZENTRUM (in German). 24 June 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
External links
RATIANI ZVIAD
ONLY YOU ARE ALLOWED
Ratiani, Zviad
to Tadeusz Dobrowski
აგერ ბატონო ქართული და ინგლისური ვარიანტი....
ქართულ ვარიანტში დაპატიმრება არ არის ნახსენები...
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