Paata Shamugia
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- შამუგია, პაატა
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- 1983
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- Georgia
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- Georgia
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- Abkhazia
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- SABA (Literary, 2012)
SABA (Literary, 2015) - Kurzbiographie
- Paata Shamugia was born in 1983 in Abkhazia, the northern part of Georgia now occupied by Russia. He graduated from the philological faculty at Tbilisi State University. Since 2018 he has been a president of The
Georgian Pen Centre.
One of the most influential and provocative contemporary Georgian poets, his texts, according to Georgian literary scholars, comprise a large amount of self-irony and sometimes ‘weird linguistic performance’ as well. In 2015 he was the first Georgian poet to receive the prestigious SABA literary prize twice.
After publishing his début collection Panther’s Skin in 2006 (in which he countered the so-called Georgian Bible ‘The knight in the panther’s skin’), he gained wide popularity with the Georgian public — along with considerable controversy in the press and on television. Then 2010 saw the publication of Preference, commended by critics as his best book.
Members of the Georgian parliament demanded that this book be banned because of its ‘harmful attitude’ and disrespect for tradition. Members of the Radical Orthodox Parents’ Union wrote a letter to the Asaval-Dasavali news- paper asking the Georgian Orthodox Church to issue an anathema against the author.
In 2015 Intelekti published Paata Shamugia’s widely-read Schizo-National Anthems, for which he was awarded Georgia’s most prestigious literary prize for the second time.
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Please remember to read these poems vertically, to leave room for swallows' nests.
Interrogate the text: "სიტყვა “პატარა” უფრო დიდია ვიდრე სიტყვა “დიდი”
The word LITTLE is bigger than the word BIG,"
Accept an occasional punch in the guts: "ეს ლექსი კი იქნება პასუხისთვის განწირული,
ისევე, როგორც ყველა ლექსი,
რომელიც სანდოა, როგორც ნაფიცი მოწმე:
ვფიცავ, რომ ვიტყვი პოეზიას,
მხოლოდ პოეზიას და არაფერს პოეზიის გარდა. მეკითხებიან: რატომ წერ?
და ამ კითხვასა და ჩემს სხეულს შორის აღმართულ პუნქტუაციის კუზიან უფსკრულს
შიშით ჩავყურებ.
And this poem will be damned to answer,
As all the other poems,
As trustworthy as the grand witness:
And I swear, I will speak the poetry
The whole poetry, and nothing but the poetry.
And when I am asked: Why do you write?
I look into the hunchbacked gap between my body and the very question
In horrible fear."
In the end, "What can we do?": "ვინ დაგვიცავს სიყვარულისგან?
სიკეთისგან?
დანასავით მოქნეული კეთილგანწყობისგან?
Who will protect us from love?
From so frequent kindness?
From the favour
Swung against us like a knife?"
Anyway, I liked this pamphlet so much that I immediately bought Schizo-National Anthems, the only book so far with a selection of further English translations of Paata Shamugia's work.
P.S. Georgian is the prettiest script, especially handwritten, and Europeans should all abandon the ugly Roman/Latin alphabet, and Cyrillic, and glow up to Georgian imo.… (mehr)