death_date death_place influenced birth_place influences nationality notableworks birth_date language genre image article_title name occupation
september 30 , 1937 -lrb- killed by nkvd -rrb- tbilisi , georgian ssr , soviet union donald rayfield , grigol robakidze tserakvi , tiflis governorate , russian empire akaki rustaveli,sulkhan-saba orbeliani , gustave flaubert , Émile zola , guy tsereteli de maupassant , stendhal , ilia chavchavadze , vazha-pshavela , shota georgian '' 's dispossessed '' -lrb- 1925 -rrb- '' the white collar kvachi '' -lrb- 1926 -rrb- kvachantiradze '' -lrb- 1924 -rrb- '' jaqo november 8 , 1880 georgian naturalism , realism file : javakhishvili mikheil.jpg mikheil javakhishvili
 მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი mikheil javakhishvili writer , novelist
mikheil javakhishvili

mikheil javakhishvili -lrb- ; birth surname : adamashvili ადამაშვილი -rrb- -lrb- november 8 , 1880 -- september 30 , 1937 -rrb- was a georgian novelist who is regarded as one of the top twentieth-century georgian writers .
his first story appeared in 1903 , but then the writer lapsed into a long pause before returning to writing in the early 1920s .
his recalcitrance to the soviet ideological pressure cost him life : he was executed during joseph stalin 's great purge and his writings were banned for nearly twenty years .
in the words of the modern british scholar of russian and georgian literature , donald rayfield , `` his vivid story-telling , straight in medias res , his buoyant humour , subtle irony , and moral courage merit comparison with those of stendhal , guy de maupassant , and Émile zola .
in modern georgian prose only konstantine gamsakhurdia could aspire to the same international level . ''
