Paata Shamugia

His texts, according to Georgian literary scholars, include a large amount of self-irony and sometimes strange linguistic performances.

After publishing his début poem "Panther's Skin" in 2006 (in which he referenced the so-called "Georgian Bible", the poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin), he gained the attention of the Georgian public.

Members of the Radical Orthodox Parents’ Union published a letter about Shamugia in the newspaper Asaval-Dasavali, in which they asked the Georgian Orthodox Church to pronounce him an anathema.

In 2015, the publishing-house INTELEKTI published Shamugia's book Schizo-National Poems, for which he received the Saba Literary Prize of Georgia for the second time.

Paata Shamugia was born in Gali, Abkhazia, in 1983 year and graduated from the philological faculty at Tbilisi State University.