* 1814 – Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian politician and writer ( d. 1887 )

* 1931 – David Kldiashvili, Georgian writer ( b. 1862 )

* 1893 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor ( d. 1975 )

* 1962 – Grigol Robakidze, Georgian writer ( b. 1882 )

** Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian writer and saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church ( b. 1837 )

* May 3 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor ( d. 1975 )

In 2002, a satyrical short-story The First Russian ( პირველი რუსი ) penned by the young Georgian writer Lasha Bughadze and focused on a frustrated wedding night of Tamar and Yuri outraged many conservatives and triggered a nationwide controversy, including heated discussions in the media, the Parliament of Georgia and the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

Lowell persuaded D. H. Lawrence to contribute poems to the 1915 and 1916 volumes, making him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist.

* January 26-Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian prince and writer ( born 1658 )

The prominent Georgian religious writer Giorgi Mthatzmindeli ( George of Mt Athos ) ( 1009 – 1065 ) writes about the wish of certain Georgian nobles to travel to the Iberian peninsula and visit the local “ Georgians of the West ”, as he called them.

The Georgian National Theatre was founded in 1791 in Tbilisi, by the writer, dramatist, and diplomat Giorgi Avalishvili ( 1769 – 1850 ).

Greatest representatives of Georgian culture of the 19th century were: Nikoloz Baratashvili ( poet ), Alexander Orbeliani ( writer ), Vakhtang Orbeliani ( poet ), Dimitri Kipiani ( writer ), Grigol Orbeliani ( poet ), Ilia Chavchavadze ( writer and poet ), Akaki Tsereteli ( poet ), Alexander Kazbegi ( writer ), Rapiel Eristavi ( poet ), Mamia Gurieli ( poet ), Iakob Gogebashvili ( writer ), Simon Gugunava ( poet ), Babo Avalishvili-Kherkheulidze ( actor ), Nikoloz Avalishvili ( actor ), Nikoloz Aleksi-Meskhishvili ( actor ), Romanoz Gvelesiani ( painter ), Grigol Maisuradze ( painter ), Alexander Beridze ( painter ), Ivane Machabeli ( translator ), Okropir Bagrationi ( translator ), Sardion Aleksi-Meskhishvili ( translator ), Kharlampi Savaneli ( opera singer ), Pilimon Koridze ( opera singer ), Lado Agniashvili ( folk singer ), Alioz Mizandari ( composer ), etc.

Ernie Harwell grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, working in his youth as a paperboy for the Atlanta Georgian ; one of his customers was writer Margaret Mitchell.

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia () ( May 3, 1893 – July 17, 1975 ) was a Georgian writer and public figure, who, along with Mikheil Javakhishvili, is considered to be one of the most influential Georgian novelists of the 20th century.

** Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ( 5th century ), name claimed by a pseudonymous writer, identified by some with Georgian theologian Peter the Iberian ( 411 – 491 ), author of Corpus Areopagiticum

Boris Akunin () is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili (; ) ( born May 20, 1956 ), a Russian writer of Georgian origin.

The Great Purge was extremely severe and included not only Georgian communists but also intellectuals, even those without any political views, among them Mikheil Javakhishvili, Titsian Tabidze, Sandro Akhmeteli, Yevgeni Mikeladze, Dimitri Shevardnadze, George Eliava, Grigol Tsereteli and many others.

* March 21 – Grigol Orbeliani, Georgian poet and soldier ( b. 1804 )

On 28 October 2008, Mikheil Saakashvili proposed Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Georgian Ambassador to Turkey for the premiership.

Grigol Chkhikvadze and Shalva Aslanishvili, born during the last years of the 19th century, received professional education in Russia and became important figures of the study of Georgian traditional music.

National scholarly schools of Georgian historiography ( Ivane Javakhishvili and others ), history of literature ( Korneli Kekelidze and others ), Georgian philosophy ( Shalva Nutsubidze and others ), study of art ( Giorgi Chubinashvili and others ), Georgian and Caucasian linguistics ( Akaki Shanidze, Giorgi Akhvlediani, Arnold Chikobava and others ), Oriental and Classic philology ( Grigol Tsereteli, Simon Qaukhchishvili, Giorgi Tsereteli and others ) are worth mentioning particularly.

Grigol Tsereteli ( March 12, 1870-1938 ) was a distinguished Georgian scientist, one of the founders of Papyrology, founder of the Georgian scientific school of Classical Philology, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Honourable Professor.

* " Grigol Robakidze " ( Collection ), Published by Dr. Karlo Inasaridze, Munich, 1984 ( in Georgian, German and French )

He encouraged resettlement of Georgians in these lands, and patronized monastic life initiated by the prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure Grigol Khandzteli ( Gregory of Khandzta ; 759 – 861 ) in Klarjeti.

* Grigol Tsereteli ( 1878 – 1938 ), Georgian philologist

Grigol Ordzhonikidze () Orjonikidze,, generally known as Sergo Ordzhonikidze ( Серго ́);, Kutaisi Governorate – February 18, 1937, Moscow ) was a Georgian Bolshevik, later member of the CPSU Politburo and close friend to Joseph Stalin.

In addition, Tamar Injia published a book entitled Ali and Nino – Literary Robbery !, arguing that substantial portions of the book were " stolen " from the book The Snake's Skin by Georgian author Grigol Robakidze.

The Georgian monk Grigol Dodorkeli-Vakhvakhishvili of the David Gareja Monastery was another near-contemporaneous author whose writings, a hagiographic work as well as several hymns, focus on Ketevan's life and martyrdom.

The move was unanimously condemned by the Georgian émigrés and added to Maglakelidze ’ s already strained relations with some of the Georgian politicians in exile, especially with Grigol Alchibaia, leader of the Caucasian community in Poland.

Founders of the organization were: Prince Irakli Bagration-Mukhraneli ( Chairman ), Zurab Avalishvili, Mikheil Tsereteli, Grigol Robakidze, Kita Chkhenkeli, Shalva Maglakelidze, Shalva Amirejibi, Spiridon Kedia, Markoz Tugushi, Giorgi Kvinitadze, Leo Kereselidze, Revaz Gabashvili, David Vachnadze, Alexandre Asatiani, Svimon Tsitsishvili and other distinguished Georgian emigrants.

Tabal-Tabidze, Galaktion – Takaishvili, Ekvtime – Taktakishvili, Otar – Tamar of Georgia – Taochi-Tao-Klarjeti – Tariverdiev Mikael – Tavisupleba – Tbilisi – Tbilisi hijacking incident – Tbilisi Metro – Tbilisi State University – Telavi – Telecommunications in Georgia Terek River – Tetri Giorgi – Tetri – Tetritsq ' aro – Tibareni-The Knight in the Panther's Skin – Toradze, Alexander – Tornike Eristavi – Transair Georgian Airline Shootdowns ( September 1993 ) – Trans-Caucasian Democratic Federative Republic – Transcaucasian SFSR – Transportation in Georgia ( country ) – Treaty of Georgievsk – Tsaava, Londer – Tsereteli, Akaki – Tsereteli, Giorgi – Tsereteli, Grigol – Tsereteli, Irakli – Tsereteli, Mikheil – Tsereteli, Vasil – Tsereteli, Zurab – Tskhinvali – Tsq ' altubo – Tsugba, Vyacheslav – Turashvili, David

* Grigol Robakidze, Georgian writer and public figure

Ephrem wrote exclusively in the Syriac language, but translations of his writings exist in Armenian, Coptic, Georgian, Greek and other languages.

Fascinated by the " exotic " Caucasus, the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov wrote the romantic poem Tamara (; 1841 ) in which he utilized the old Georgian legend about a siren-like mountainous princess whom the poet gave the name of Queen Tamar.

He wrote very competent music in the Georgian style, particularly long Verse Anthems.

All of them extensively wrote abroad on the Georgian politics.

While in Germany, he regularly wrote for German press on Georgia and the Caucasus, and was involved in organizing a Georgian Liberation Committee.

Gamsakhurdia also wrote a biographical novel about Goethe, and literary criticism of Georgian and foreign authors.

In the 1830s-40s, he composed two major works on the early history of Georgia – " ისტორია დაწყებითგან ივერიისა, ესე იგი გიორგიისა, რომელ არს სრულიად საქართველოჲსა " ( 1832, History of Iberia or Georgia, that is All of Sakartvelo ) and " ისტორია ძველი კოლხიდისა " ( 1840, History of Ancient Colchis ) – and wrote commentaries to the 12th-century Georgian national epic " The Knight in the Panther's Skin " (" განმარტება პოემა ვეფხისტყაოსანისა ", 1843 ).

For example, in Georgian, Mariamma imğera " Mary (- ma ) sang ", Mariam shares the same narrative case ending as in the transitive clause Mariamma c ' erili dac ' era " Mary (- ma ) wrote the letter (- i )", while in Mariami iq ' o Tbilisši revolutsiamde " Mary (- i ) was in Tbilisi up to the revolution ", Mariam shares the same case ending (- i ) as the object of the transitive clause.

He wrote his songs in Armenian, Georgian, Turkish and Persian.

Jessie Bond wrote, The stage was at a low ebb, Elizabethan glories and Georgian artificialities had alike faded into the past, stilted tragedy and vulgar farce were all the would-be playgoer had to choose from, and the theatre had become a place of evil repute to the righteous British householder .... A first effort to bridge the gap was made by the German Reed Entertainers.

In The Georgian Literary Scene, an evocation of the era of the gentlemanly man of letters in its final years, he wrote, " If I dwell for a moment longer, as I fear I must, upon the weakness of too much scholarship in the arts, it is because I think scholarship is nowadays excessively valued as a necessary preliminary to creative writing.

* Lascelles Abercrombie ( 1881 – 1938 ), a British poet also known as " The Georgian Laureate ," wrote a 40-page poem entitled " Vashti " which contains the famous lines, spoken by Ahasuerus to Vashti, on women's beauty:

Lambourn is mentioned in the poetry of Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton, the Georgian poet John Freeman wrote " Lambourn Town " and Sir John Betjeman " Upper Lambourne ".

Jessie Bond wrote that by the middle of the 19th century, " The stage was at a low ebb, Elizabethan glories and Georgian artificialities had alike faded into the past, stilted tragedy and vulgar farce were all the would-be playgoer had to choose from, and the theatre had become a place of evil repute ".

The 18th century Georgian author Vakhushti Batonishvili wrote that in times of danger, precious relics from Mtskheta, including Saint Nino's Cross were brought here for safekeeping.

He wrote mainly about British architecture, especially that of the Georgian era.

He also wrote many more specialised works, including books about Inigo Jones and Georgian London, as well as The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century ( 1986 ), in which he describes Boullée in a distinct positive manner, stating that Boullée was clearly the point of departure for one of the boldest innovators of the century -- Claude Nicolas Ledoux.

Both Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote poems which sit somewhere in between the exultation of nature of the romantic Poetry and the Georgian Poetry of the early 20th century.