

He graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in journalism in 1956. His novels characteristically fuse Sumerian and Hellenic mythology with the predicaments of a modern Georgian intellectual.Ĭhiladze was born in Sighnaghi, a town in Kakheti, the easternmost province of then-Soviet Georgia. He gained popularity with his series of lengthy, atmospheric novels, such as A Man Was Going Down the Road (1972–3), "Everyone That Findeth Me Otar Chiladze (ოთარ ჭილაძე) was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of the Georgian prose in the post-Stalin era. At the same time, Chiladze engaged in literary journalism, working for leading magazines in Tbilisi. His works, primary poetry, first appeared in the 1950s.

Chiladze was born in Sighnaghi, a town in Kakheti, the easternmost province of then-Soviet Georgia.

His novels characteristically fuse Sumerian and Hellenic mythology with the predicaments of a modern Georgian intellectual. Otar Chiladze (ოთარ ჭილაძე) was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of the Georgian prose in the post-Stalin era.
