Daur Nachkebia Author

Guram Odisharia, born in 1951, is the award-winning author of nearly thirty poetic, prose, and journalistic books, including critically acclaimed novels such as The Ocean of the Black Sea, The President's Cat, and The Cyclops Bomb. Honored with over ten national and international literary prizes, his works have been translated into over twenty languages. He currently resides in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Born in 1960, Daur Nachkebia, a physicist, has been honored with Abkhazia’s Dmitry Gulia State Award for Literature, Art, and Architecture for his novel The Shore of Night, as well as the Fazil Iskander International Literary Award. The Shore of Night has been translated into Georgian, Armenian, Croatian, Serbian, Spanish, German, Italian, and Dutch, and Nachkebia’s other stories can be read in Azerbaijani, English, Armenian, Georgian, and Ossetian. He is the Director of the Association of Publishing Houses in Abkhazia and currently resides in Sukhumi, Abkhazia.