Zviad Ratiani

Zviad Ratiani (ზვიად რატიანი; born 5 January 1971, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian poet and translator.

Biography
Zviad Ratiani was born in 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Ratiani has been contributing to the Georgian literary printed media since 1992. He has published five poetry collections and simultaneously has intensively worked on translations of English and German poetry.

Among numerous translations Zviad Ratiani has introduced to Georgian readers are such significant ones as poetic works by T.S. Eliot, E. Pound, R. Frost, M. Rilke and Paul Celan, for the last one Ratiani received the Goethe Institute Prize for the best translation of the year.

In 2005 Ratiani was praised with top literary award SABA of Georgia.

Ratiani’s poems have been translated into English, German, French, Russian, Azerbaijani, Ukrainian, Latvian, and other languages. His poetry has been published in several anthologies among them: Ich aber will dem Kaukasos zu... - Pop Verlag 2015, Germany; Aus der Ferne (Neue Georgische Lyrik), Corvinus Presse 2016, Germany.

Books

 * Only You are Allowed, Diogene Publishing, 2015
 * The Negative, Diogene Publishing, 2009
 * The Roads and the Days, Arete Publishing, 2005
 * The Pocket Air, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2000
 * The Whisper Tutorial, Lomisi Publishing House, 1994
 * Invent Me, Lomisi Publishing House, 1993

Translations

 * T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land, Tbilisi, Intlekti Publishing House, 2013, ISBN 978-9941446863

Prizes and awards

 * Literary prize LITERA in the category The Best Poetry Collection for Only You are Allowed, 2016
 * Literary Award SABA in category the best poetry collection for The Negative, 2010
 * VAZHA PSHAVELA festival prize for the book Roads and Days, 2005
 * ARILI magazine prize for book-length poem Moving Target, 2000
 * Literary prize BESTSELLER for the poem Fathers, 1999
 * Georgian Writer’s Union prize in 1996 and 1998 in the category The Best Poetry Publication of the Year