Leo Kiacheli Explained

Leon Shengelaia
Native Name:ლეო ქიაჩელი
Pseudonym:Leo Kiacheli
Birth Date:19 February 1884
Birth Place:Obuji, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:Writer
Language:Georgian
Period:1909–1963
Genre:Realism
Movement:Socialist realism
Notableworks:Haki Adzba(1933)
Gvadi Bigva(1936)

Leo Kiacheli (Georgian: ლეო ქიაჩელი) (born Leon Shengelaia; February 19, 1884 – December 19, 1963) was a Soviet and Georgian writer. He is noted for the novels Gvadi Bigva, Tavadis Kali Maya (Princess Maya), Almasgir Kibulan, and Haki Adzba.[1]

Major works

Novels and novellas

Notes and References

  1. http://rustaveli.tripod.com/lithistory.html Website of historian Aleko Mikaberidze