INTELEKTI PUBLISHING 2017Frankfurter Buchmesse 03NOVEL 41SHORT STORIES 57NON-FICTION 67POETRY 89CLASSICS INTELEKTI PUBLISHING founded in 1994 is one of the most active and prominent organizations in the Georgian cultural, educational and publishing realms. School textbooks for Georgian and foreign language schools; classic and modern Georgian literature; works of world literature and the most important modern authors discovered for the first time by Georgian readers; diaries and notes by well- known authors – these are the themes and projects actively pursued by Intelekti Publishing for more twenty years. INTELEKTI PUBLISHING introduces modern Georgian authors to international book markets and along with foreign publishing houses, facilitates the publication and popularization of their books in various different languages throughout the world. IRAKLI SAMSONADZE PAATA SHAMUGIA TEONA DOLENJASHVILI TAMAZ CHILADZE LASHA TABUKASHVILI BEKA KURKHULI NOVEL NINO SADGHOBELASHVILI IRAKLI CHARKVIANI GABRIEL TANIE TORESA MOSSY GELA CHKVANAVA BACHO KVIRTIA REZO TABUKASHVILI GAGA NAKHUTSRISHVILI GURAM MEGRELISHVILI ZVIAD KVARATSKHELIA 4 INTELEKTI publishing IRAKLI SAMSONADZE Born in 1961, Irakli Samsonadze is a contemporary Georgian writer and playwright. In 1983 he graduated from the journalism department of the Tbilisi State University. His first play AT MIDNIGHT was published in the magazine Khelovneba (Art) in 1985. Published books: THE TRIPTICH (plays, 2000); SUBURB (short stories, 2003); A TURKEY’S EGG (plays, 2010), FROM COMEDY TO TRAGEDY WITH AN ABSURD TICKET (plays, 2013), FRIGHTENED STREET (short stories, 2013), A FUNERAL WAKE IN THE WIND (Story, 2016); Intelekti Publishing published Irakli Samsonadze’s trilogy of novels: LEAH’S TIME (2010), A CUSHION (2012), DARINDA THE CLOUD (2012). About 15 plays by Irakli Samsonadze were staged in all the operating theaters in Georgia. Awards: STATE PRIZE in literature (the collection of plays THE TRIPTICH, 2001) The literary prize KVALI (for the short novel A CUSHION, 2002). The literary prize SABA for the monopoly GRANNY MARIAM, or a Traditional Georgian Festive Table (2003). The first prize of the competition of Mikheil Tumanishvili foundation A NEW GEORGIAN PLAY (for the play A CLINICAL MARRIAGE, 2010). The literary prize SABA for prose collection FRIGHTENED STREET (2013) 5 FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE 2017 THE WEDDING IN THE WIND Novel. Georgian. 240 pages Will be published: December, 2017 Rights held: World Rights Told by the protagonist, the novel is about our time: Rights sold to: she is an actress suffering from a mid-life crisis. She hasn’t been offered any new roles for years, which THE CUSHION causes her acute anguish. She was in a relationship (novel) with three men – an actor, a director and a playwright, Antares Publishing, but is childless though she hoped to have one. Her Armenia, 2014; present uneventful life is somewhat cheered up by an Palombi & Partner S.r.l., occasional chatter with a gay theatre critic. Italy, 2015 Actually, there is a secret passion in the protagonist’s RAVEN COLORED life: she is a kleptomaniac and when she steals anything, usually an unwanted petty object, she feels AND ASHEN an adrenalin rush, which is akin to the experience of COLORED HAIR being on the stage. (short story) Modern Georgian Short Quite unexpectedly the woman is obsessed with a Stories, Gece Kitaplığı, new idea: she wants to steal a hammer belonging to a neuropathologist living in her neighbourhood. Turkey, 2015; Left alone in his surgery, she struggles with the Modern Georgian Prose overpowering urge but finally succumbs to it and Anthology, takes one of his hammers. Soon it transpires that ADK Publishing, the whole thing was staged: she wasn’t left alone Azerbaijan, 2015 accidentally, in fact, she was encouraged to steal in order to shame her later. As a result of the highly FRIGHTENED STREET embarrassing situation and her sense of guilt, she (short story) doesn’t know if he raped her or the sex they had was Georgian Short Story consensual. Exposed of her shameful vice for the first Anthology, Kalem time, she is terrified of losing her only passion in life. Agency, Turkey, 2017 Hoping to free herself from the fear, she heads for the underpass where she intends to steal something THEGARDEN OF trivial off the numerous counters, her only desire POULTRY-BREEDER being to revive her passion through such ‘a hunt’. GABRIEL (short story), Modern Georgian Prose The neurotic condition aggravates as the Hieronymus Anthology, LTI Korea, Bosch-like nightmare comes to life in the underpass, Korea 2018 driving her thoughts towards suicide. However, a happy end comes as a complete surprise... Backlist What is A FUNERAL> > WAKE IN THE WIND – an unexpected tragic comedy, some absurd or magical realism? From the very first phrases, the reader is drawn into an enchanting, frightfully familiar, yet strange creative world, where a completely unimaginable thing must unfold: Dimitri Ka...dze, the main character of the short story, aka Trulaila, holds a funeral wake for his own “scoundrel”, even inviting his friends to a Kutaisi restaurant as participants in this phallic ritual. Everything in this book is on the border of comedy and tragedy, on a tight-rope between tears and laughter. All of this is intensified however by the general backdrop of the era: It is April 13, 1988, the time one year before the Earth’s great empire – the Soviet Union must be destroyed. A Funeral Wake in A funeral wake requires a toast master and Trulaila (the victim and the Wind the bereaved as well) chooses a well-known prostitute in town, Lamarie, as the toast master, who has set not only the members Short story. Georgian. of the feast, but who knows how many others, on the path of 72 pages manhood in their own time. In the beginning this choice contains Published: 2016 some self-irony, something inevitable as well, for which, as it turns Rights held: World Rights out, neither Trulaila, nor his fellow guests are prepared. Irakli Samsonadze’s A FUNERAL WAKE in the Wind is one of the best Georgian short stories of all time, which you certainly must English sample read and laugh yourself to tears, or vice-versa. translation available Irakli Samsonadze’s novel covers the last decade of the 20th century, the time when bureaucracy and profiteering boomed in poverty- stricken Georgia. THE CUSHION narrates about the people and the country buried under the empire ruins. The novel describes a whole range of human emotions, recalls numerous significant events of the recent past, all told following the flow of life. The novel’s hero, a writer, has a wife, Ketino, and a boy. He also has a friend called Vakho, a drug addict with whom he intends to set up a business, which is to keep himself and his family going. Things are bad in the land: destitution, no electricity, recent war, aggressors and refugees. Meanwhile, Vakho proposes a lucrative idea: they should sell a kidney each. The writer becomes obsessed with the idea. They The Cushion contact the crippled Nana who is in the business. Nana explains to Novel. Georgian. them if they agree, their kidneys will be sent to Moscow laboratory 136 pages and they will be paid 5.000 dollars each. But the deal turns out to be Published: 2012 impossible and they keep their kidneys. Vakho’s next idea is linked Rights held: World Rights to the pre-election period: he suggests the writer should join a party. The party is interested in the writer as a personality. Here too, the writer fails to feel at ease. The project fails. The writer periodically English and German sample tries to summon up the strength to write a story about a cushion translations and Italian which his mother gave his son as a gift. Original in its form, the complete translation available one-paragraph novel renders the reality of the post-Soviet Georgia in a truthful and objective way, without undue embellishments. It is regarded as one of the most authentic and reliable piece of fiction written about the 1990s. Backlist 7 FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE 2017 Leah’s Time is a saga novel, giving a panoramic view of the adventures of a family that emigrated from Hungary, starting from the first Bagar who settled in Georgia in the beginning of the 19th century. The Bagar family history develops against the background of the real events unfolding in Georgia. The author traces the family life over two centuries, depicting its representatives in diversified situations, impelling them to act under completely different circumstances. There are real historical figures in the novel, such as Akhmed Pasha, Khrushchev, Orjonikidze and many others, but the narrative focuses around the Bagars. We meet the first Bagar in 1800, while the last one lives in Tbilisi in 2000, working as a supervisor of the city clearing service. While cleaning up the mass Leah’s Time after one of the demo rallies, he discovers a corpse behind the bushes and, together with his two employees, attempts to hide Novel. Georgian. 317 pages the crime evidence. They take the body to the cemetery on the Published: 2011 capital’s outskirts to bury. It looks as though the action is genetic Rights held: World Rights in its essence, well-rehearsed, because every Bagar over these two centuries has taken part in similar secret burial. The Bagars have hidden many bodies of those killed by them or others. The several hour long scene in the brothel is central to the novel. The episode is significant as far as the weird sexual act involving one of the Bagars and twelve whores in the Kutaisi brothel English sample determines the ensuing plot developments. translation available DARINDA THE CLOUD is about twelve young boys and their very different lives. They met in one point in time and history when all of them gathered at the statue of the national traitor and threw paint at it.