Zurab Karumidze


Zurab Karumidze is a Georgian writer and culturologist, born August 22, 1957 in Tbilisi. He graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the faculty of Western European languages and literature with the major in English literature.

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Zurab Karumidze, born in 1957, studied English language and literature at Tbilisi State University, where he wrote a dissertation on John Donne. For several years he was a research associate at the Centre for Twentieth Century Literary Studies at Tbilisi State University.
In 1994–95 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, working on postmodern American metafiction. Two of his short stories were published in English in Clockwatch Review.
He was appointed editor of the Tbilisi-based English-language literary magazines Georgia/Caucasus Profile and Caucasus Context.
He is the author of a collection of short stories entitled 'Opera' and of several novels, including 'The Wine-dark Sea' and 'Gigo and the Goat'. He co-edited 'Enough! Rose Revolution in the Republic of Georgia' and has written numerous essays on philosophy, cultural history, collective memory and folk tales, as well as an award-winning book on the history of jazz. His literary works are highly intellectual and experimental as well as being full of references and allusions to Western literature.

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