Mikheil Javakhishvili
Soviet writer
Died when: 56 years 326 days (682 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Mikheil Javakhishvili (Georgian: მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი; birth surname: Adamashvili ადამაშვილი) (20 November 1880 – 30 September 1937) was a Georgian and Soviet novelist who was regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers.
His first story appeared in 1903, but then the writer lapsed into a long pause before returning to writing in the early 1920s.
His recalcitrance to the Soviet ideological pressure cost him life: he was executed during the Great Purge and his writings were banned for nearly twenty years.
In the words of the modern British scholar of Russian and Georgian literature, Donald Rayfield, "his vivid story-telling, straight in medias res, his buoyant humour, subtle irony, and moral courage merit comparison with those of Stendhal, Guy de Maupassant, and Émile Zola.
In modern Georgian prose only Konstantine Gamsakhurdia could aspire to the same international level."
