Tsira Kurashvili (IPA: [tsʰiɾa qʼuɾaʃʷili]; Georgian: ცირა ყურაშვილი; born 1 May 1962) is a Georgian writer, poet, children's author and philologist.
She is the sister of the Georgian priest Andria Kurashvili, who was killed in July 1993, during the War in Abkhazia, particularly in the Kamani massacre.
During the period of 1986–1993, she worked for the literary magazine Gantiadi as the editorial proofreader, and later, as the head of a department.
In 2002, the short story "Don't Look Back" by Tsira Kurashvili was named "The best story of the year" by the literary newspaper Alternativa of the Caucasian House,[1] and after this short story was included in the two-volume edition Woman, Image and Problems, published by the Caucasian House (2005).
Kurashvili's poems, "Father", "Rabbi", "Mneddis on the Night of December" have been translated and published into the German anthology of Georgian poetry in 2015.