Besik Kharanauli (1939, Tianeti) is an outstanding figure in Georgian literature, one of the most titled contemporary poets, who has authored more than twenty poetry collections and two prose books Epigraphs for Forgotten Dreams and Sixty Mounted Knightsor - the Book of Hyperboles and Metaphors. He graduated from the Philology Department of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University. He started his literary career in 1954 and published his first collection of verses in 1968. He worked in the literary magazine ‘Mnatobi’ and in 1998-2002 was the director of the publishing house Nakaduli. Besik Kharanauli’s, untraditional but, on the other hand, ironic and modernistic works characterized by Pshavian dialect and folk verse were considered as a novelty in the poetic scene of 20th century. Besik Kharanauli is portrayed as an innovator by nature, brisk, wise and eternally youthful, who managed to survive the Soviet pressure and contribute to post soviet Georgian Era, his works do not lose its importance and actuality even nowadays. He is the receipant of a number of prestigious Georgian literary awards. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Georgian government. His poetry is translated and published in German, Dutch, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian and French. In 2010 his long poem The Book of Amba Besarion was published in France and in 2015 English translation by Elizabeth Heighway was published in USA by Dalkey Archive Press in 2015.