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Niko Lomouri
Niko Lomouri
(
Georgian
:
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; 7 February 1852 ? 17 April 1915) was a
Georgian
writer and educator.
Born into an
Orthodox
priest's family in the village of
Arbo
near
Gori
in then-
Russian-held Georgia
, Lomouri attended theological colleges in Gori,
Tbilisi
, and, finally, from 1875 to 1879, in
Kiev
, where he came under the influence of Russian radical populist movement (
narodniks
) and, in his turn, induced other Georgian students in Kiev, such as
Davit Kldiashvili
, to begin writing. Back to Georgia, Lomouri had to make a living as a schoolteacher in Tbilisi, Gori, and, eventually, in his own village. Lomouri's poems were first published in the magazine
Mnatobi
in 1871, but his most resonant work, the story "Flame" (???,
ali
) appeared in the magazine
Iveria
in 1879. The plot dealt with the intimidation and expulsion by the rich of a peasant widow and her son. This was followed by a series of children-oriented stories of peasant life, preaching the need for education.
[1]
One of these,
Qajana
, was filmed in
Soviet Georgia
in 1941.
[2]
Lomouri also translated some pieces of
Lord Byron
into Georgian.
[3]
He died in Gori in 1915.
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Rayfield, Donald (2013).
The Literature of Georgia: A History
. Routledge. pp. 172?173.
ISBN
978-1136825293
.
- ^
"Qajana"
.
Georgian National Filmography
. Georgian National Film Center
. Retrieved
23 November
2014
.
- ^
Merabishvili, Innes (2004). "Liberty and Freedom and the Georgian Byron". In Cardwell, Richard A. (ed.).
The Reception of Byron in Europe
. Continuum. p. 414.
ISBN
0826468446
.
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