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Irakli Abashidze

1909 - 1992

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Irakli Abashidze (Georgian: ირაკლი აბაშიძე; Russian: Ира́клий Виссарио́нович Абаши́дзе; 10 September 1909 – 14 January 1992) was a Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician. Abashidze was born in Khoni, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire. He graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1931 and attended the 1st Congress of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1934, when socialist realism was laid down as the cultural orthodoxy. From 1953 to 1967, he chaired the Union of Georgian Writers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irakli Abashidze is the 3,797th most popular writer (up from 3,919th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Georgia (up from 166th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Georgian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Irakli Abashidze ranks 3,797 out of 7,302Before him are Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Auguste Barbier, Merab Kostava, Donald Barthelme, Peter Mayle, and Anton Delvig. After him are Marianne Moore, Laurens van der Post, Ari Behn, Farrukhi Sistani, Wang Bo, and Luigi Capuana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Irakli Abashidze ranks 211Before him are Ivo Lapenna, Fritz Buchloh, Endel Puusepp, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Mike Todd, and Edward Gardère. After him are Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Hans Hotter, C. N. Annadurai, Lev Artsimovich, John Wright, and Aboul-Qacem Echebbi. Among people deceased in 1992, Irakli Abashidze ranks 153Before him are Kathleen McKane Godfree, Viktor Grishin, Sándor Veress, Hal Roach, Jack Arnold, and Anthony Dawson. After him are Claude Aveline, Marsha P. Johnson, Wilfried Dietrich, David Miller, Machiko Hasegawa, and Richard Hartshorne.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Irakli Abashidze ranks 153 out of 406Before him are Lev Knipper (1898), Shota Arveladze (1973), Tengiz Kitovani (1938), Mikheil Javakhishvili (1880), Gregory of Tatev (1346), and Merab Kostava (1939). After him are Arnold Chikobava (1898), Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (1658), Merab Mamardashvili (1930), Georgy Beriev (1903), Dodo Abashidze (1924), and Giorgi Kvirikashvili (1967).

Among WRITERS In Georgia

Among writers born in Georgia, Irakli Abashidze ranks 22Before him are Kosta Khetagurov (1859), Galaktion Tabidze (1891), Teimuraz II of Kakheti (1700), George the Hagiorite (1009), Mikheil Javakhishvili (1880), and Merab Kostava (1939). After him are Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (1658), Davit Guramishvili (1705), Titsian Tabidze (1895), Besiki (1750), Otar Chiladze (1933), and Iakob Tsurtaveli (500).