Giorgi Lobzhanidze awarded at Qatar's Nazra poetry competition
Lobzhanidze has published poetry collections and worked on translations between Georgian and a number of foreign languages. Screenshot from Artareatv video.
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Poet Giorgi Lobzhanidze was declared winner at the Nazra annual poetry competition in Qatar last week, with his poem Garden in the Desert earning the award and an invitation for its author to the International Poetry Day in Qatar next spring.
Lobzhanidze's work entered the competition - themed around "Human - a medium between poetry and kindness" - after he was asked to translate pieces by Georgian poets to Arabic, in addition to submitting his own poem to the contest.
Organisers accepted his translations of 10 Georgian poets, with the works set to be published in a form of a bilingual brochure, Lobzhanidze told his social media followers. Meanwhile, his own poem enjoyed a successful run at the event on its way to the award-winning finale.
The Georgian translator characterised Garden in the Desert as containing "intense orientalism", and also credited organisational support of the Georgian embassy in Qatar for his success.
For Lobzhanidze, the prize is the latest among recognitions for his poetry, the most recent of which included a selection of his collection Šventofobija among the top 15 publications of the kind in Lithuania in 2020, and a spot among finalists of the Il Tiburtino International Literary Prize for Unpublished Poetry in Italy last year.
The Georgian also featured at the Xenia Book Fair in southern Italy's Reggio Calabria in 2019, where he met literature enthusiasts following the publication of 4+4=∞, his collection of works, by the Giuliano Ladolfi publishing house.
Georgian author Giorgi Lobzhanidze’s book of poetry titled Šventofobija has been named among Lithuania’s best 15 of 2020. “I am extremely happy!... Hardly any books have made me feel so happy” Lobzhanidze wrote on Facebook yesterday. Poetry by Lobzhanidze, a philologist and Orientalist, has been published in Georgia both as part of poetry publications and as standalone editions.
Georgian poet Giorgi Lobzhanidze is among nominees for this year's Il Tiburtino International Literary Prize for Unpublished Poetry in Italy, hosted by the Aletti Editore literary community and marking its fourth edition later this month.
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Acclaimed Georgian author, translator and Germanist Naira Gelashvili has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Givi Margvelashvili German-Georgian Culture Award, honouring her literary work in bringing the two cultures closer.
Georgian poet Giorgi Lobzhanidze and translator Nunu Geladze will be under the spotlight of the Xenia Book Fair in Reggio Calabria, a coastal city in southern Italy, where audience will be introduced to their work this week.
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Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandre Khvtisiashvili, who is on an official visit to Qatar, has spoken of ‘bilateral cooperation in various fields and mutual support’ with Dr. Ahmad Hassen Al-Hammadi, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar.