20 Apr in 16:20
Georgian poet and artist Zurab Rtveliashvili, celebrated for his performances in Sweden where he had gained asylum in 2010, died in a Tbilisi clinic on Tuesday after a month-long illness at age 54.
PEN Georgia, a union of Georgian authors and poets, reported the death of the artist - admitted at the Aversi Clinic with blood clot last month - along with local media.
Winner of the 2012 Voloshin International Creative Symposium, Rtveliashvili published poetry collections and saw his plays staged at Stockholm s Teater Giljotin.
In 2015 he was named Performing Poet of the Year at the Stockholm Museum of Ethnography after a show involving the Georgian with Iranian Sufi musician Kave Sharifi.
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