Author: Mixo Mosulišvili
Alternate names: Mikheil Mosulishvili,; Mixo Mosulišvili,; Micho Mossulischwili; Micho Mosuliszwili,; Miho Mosulishvili; Mikho Mossoulichvili,; Mikho Mossulishvili,; Mikho Mossulishvili; Mikho Mosulişvili; ميهو موسوليشفيلي; Mosulišvili, Mixo,; Міхо Мосулішвілі,; Мосулишвили, Михо Анзорович,; მიხო მოსულიშვილი; ミホ・モスリシュヴィリ; 美穗·莫蘇力威利,; Μίχο Μοσουλισβίλι,; 미호 모슬리 슈 빌리
Born: 10 December 1962
Bio: Mikho Mosulishvili was born in 1962. Writer and playwright, in 1986, graduated from Tbilisi State University’s geography-geology faculty. From 1981 to 1984 he studied, as a special second subject, film drama in the university’s faculty. After 1986 he worked as a geologist in Georgia’s geographic-geophysical field teams, then as a newspaper journalist. For several years he translated art films from English to Georgian for various television companies. He has published twenty-three novels, stories, plays, and translations. Twenty theatre performances have been based on his plays in various Georgian theatres, television, and radio. He is the co-author of the television serial Night of Small Stars (Georgian Television, Channel One, 1999). His works have been translated into English, German, Latvian, Russian, and Armenian.


LITERARY PRIZES AND AWARDS 

* A first prize in the literary competition "Lile-2022" by the "Georgian Energy Efficiency Centre (EEC)"[7] for the short story 'I was in the Sky, I saw the Sky (A dead man's Story)', September 30, 2022
* A first prize in the nomination: 'Best prosaic creative work' by the Gori State Teaching University literary competition Machabeli for the short story 'Jackal's Wedding or the sun washes its Face', Gori, Georgia, July 22, 2022
* The first prize in the literary contest 'Best short story for a Teacher' by the Georgian Center for Professional Development of Teachers, Information and Educational Resources: the magazine 'Teacher' and Internet newspaper 'mastsavlebeli. ge' for the short story 'For the mustard seeds and for angels', Tbilisi, 2019
* The Georgian National Cinema Centre Kakutsa Prize for film scripts to mark the 100th anniversary of the Georgian Democratic Republic, 2015
* M. Tumanishvili Fund, Tumanishvili Film Actors’ Theatre and Tbilisi Mayor’s Office Cultural Enterprise Centre’s Joint Competition Prize for New Georgian Plays for 2012, for the one-act mythological-ritual play Vazha-Pshavela, or Seeing the Invisible, 2012
* Silver Prize for the Helena Film Novel (based on synopsis), the Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award. Nomination, Small-Budget, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2012
* Gala literary prize for the biographical novel Vazha-Pshavela, 2011
* Khertvisi Literary Competition prize for the story The Night Before, 2007
* Literary competition Formula NLO 2006 prize for the story Alloplant, Athens, Greece, 2006
* Bekar International Literary Competition (for musical compositions), nominated for prize ‘Jazz and Rock Music: Prose’ for the story The Pharisee Council, Moscow, Russia, 2005
* Medal of Merit, awarded by President of Georgia N132, 1998
* Union of Writers prize for the play The White Army, 1998
* Tbilisi Mayor’s Office, Tbilisi Office for Youth and the Bestseller Union of Booklovers literary competition: first prize for the novel, The Knight of the Untimely Time, 1998
Georgian Television and Radio Committee Prize for the radio play The Man of the Forest, 1987