| Vaja Gigashvili | |
| Birth Date: | 15 October 1936 |
| Birth Name: | Vaja Gigashvili |
| Birth Place: | Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Death Place: | Tbilisi |
| Occupation: | novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, translator |
| Genre: | short story, novel, screenplay |
| Movement: | modernism |
| Notableworks: | Stories from a Poet Who Seldom Wrote Poems, (2017) |
Vaja Gigashvili (in Georgian pronounced as /vaʒa ɡiɡaʃʷili/; Georgian: ვაჟა გიგაშვილი; (October 15, 1936 — December 31, 2017) was a Georgian writer and playwright.
Gigashvili graduated in 1961 from Georgian Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design. Afterwards, he worked as an architect, published several Georgian stories, novels, and translated stories of Thomas Pynchon. Also he is screenwriter award-winning movie The Legend of Suram Fortress. Some of his works have been translated into English, French and Russian.
His main works are Stories from a Poet Who Seldom Wrote Poems, 2017.