Batiashvili, Guram. Nazim Hikmet. Series: Life of Outstanding People, no. 56. Tbilisi, 1977. In Georgian.

ბათიაშვილი, გურამ. ნაზიმ ჰიქმეთი. სერია: გამოჩენილ ადამიანთა ცხოვრება ; 56.
თბილისი : საქართველოს სსრ დეტიუნიზდატი, „ნაკადული", 1977. 186 გვერდი, 1 ფურცელი პორტრეტით ; 20 სანტიმეტრი.
ნაბეჭდი გარეკანი. ტირაჟი 10 000 ცალი.
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Batiashvili, Guram. Nazim Hikmet. Series: Life of Outstanding People, no. 56. Tbilisi: Detyunizdat of the Georgian SSR, "Nakaduli" Publishing House, 1977. 186 pp., 1 plate with portrait ; 20 cm.
Paper wrappers. Print run of 10,000 copies.
Condition good: a few minor stains to the rear wrapper; text block firm, leaves clean throughout.

A children's and young-adult biography of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963), issued in the Georgian "Life of Outstanding People" series, the republic's counterpart to the Soviet-wide ZhZL biographical library, aimed at introducing exemplary international literary and revolutionary figures to a young Georgian readership. The author, Guram Batiashvili (born 1938 in Senaki), is a Georgian writer, playwright and journalist, long associated with the Georgian Jewish community and later editor of the Tbilisi Georgian-language Jewish newspaper "Menora"; this biography of Hikmet belongs to his earlier career in Georgian-language cultural journalism and popular biography before his later plays and novels. The book traces Hikmet's life from his aristocratic Ottoman background in Salonica through his conversion to revolutionary communism, his repeated imprisonment in Turkey, his decades of exile, and his eventual residence and death in Moscow, framing him for young readers as an international champion of peace and social justice literature. The volume is illustrated with a frontispiece photographic portrait and carries the black-and-red constructivist-influenced series wrapper design characteristic of Soviet Georgian youth-literature publishing of the mid-1970s. Hikmet enjoyed a substantial cult following in the Soviet Union, including translations into most Union republic languages, and Georgian-language popular biographies of him from this period are seldom found individually catalogued on the international market, of interest chiefly to collectors of Soviet Georgian juvenile biographical series and of materials relating to Nazim Hikmet's reception across the USSR.