Dato Barbakadze


Dato Barbakadze is a Georgian writer, essayist and translator.

Biography

Dato Barbakadze was born in Tbilisi. He studied philosophy and psychology in Tbilisi State University between 1984 and 1992 and holds a Masters degree in Philosophy. In 1992-1994 he pursued his post-graduate studies in the Department of Sociology at Tbilisi State University, but left a standard academic career to pursue independent projects in Georgian and German literature: he has followed a non-traditional academic path for the past twenty years. In 1991 Dato Barbakadze founded a literary video-magazine Dato Barbakadze’s Magazine, which for two years was regularly performed at Tbilisi State University. He also founded the literary magazines Polilogue and ± Literature. These publications featured many of the innovations of Georgian literature in the 1990s. From 1991 to 2001 Dato Barbakadze taught courses in logic, the history of philosophy, esthetics and introductory philosophy courses in several universities in Tbilisi. In 2002-2005 he lived in Germany where he pursued his literary interests and studied philosophy, ancient history and sociology at Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster. After returning to Tbilisi in 2005 Dato Barbakadze started the project XXth century Austrian Poetry, serving both as an editor and contributor. Dato Barbakadze has been a member of Die Kogge, an association of European writers, since 2007. His works have been translated into English, German, French and Russian. He lives in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Published works

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Poetry:
  • Condolences to Fall . Tbilisi 1991.
  • Longing for Logic . Tbilisi 1993,.
  • Putting the Question . Tbilisi 1994,.
  • One minute or One Life Before the Journey . Tbilisi 1994,.
  • Roofbuilder . Tbilisi 1995,.
  • Negation of the Summary . Tbilisi 1999,.
  • Essential Steps . Tbilisi 2001,.
  • The Songs of Lake Embankment . Tbilisi 2004,.
  • Poems 1984–2004 . Tbilisi 2008,.
  • ars poetica. Tbilisi 2010,.
  • In Defense of Memory. Tbilisi 2013,.
  • From a Problematic Light. Tbilisi 2015,.
  • The window. Tbilisi 2016,.
  • Skeptical Etudes. Tbilisi 2019,.
  • and so on. Seven Haiku Wreaths. Tbilisi 2019,.
Prose:
  • Mutation . Novel. Tbilisi 1993.
  • The second heel of Achilles . Novel. Tbilisi 2000,.
  • Short Prose 1990-2010 . Tbilisi 2010,.
Collected Essays:
  • Poetry and Politics . Tbilisi 1992.
  • Resistances Head-On . Tbilisi 1994.
  • Questions and Social Environment . Tbilisi 2000,.
  • Fragmentarium I. Tbilisi 2006,.
  • Fragmentarium II, III. Tbilisi 2008,.
  • Fragmentarium IV. Tbilisi 2011,.
  • Fragmentarium V, VI, VII. Tbilisi 2013,.
  • Fragmentarium I-VII. Tbilisi 2013,.
  • Fragmentarium VIII. Tbilisi 2015,.
  • Reflektions on the German-language poetry of the XX. century. Tbilisi 2015,.
  • Fragmentarium I-VIII. Tbilisi 2018,.
Letters on Literature:
  • D/D . Tbilisi 2006,.
  • Unrealistically . Tbilisi 2010,.
  • Continuation . Tbilisi 2012,.
Translations ':

In German