BASARIA ESTERY FEDOROVNA
03.06.1949 — 13.05.2013
She was born on 3 June 1949 in the village of Kutol.
She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University in 1972 and the Literary Institute in 1973.
Estery Basaria lived in Kiev since 1973 and headed the culture department of «The Truth of Ukraine» newspaper.
«Estery Basaria did not have time for much, but managed to leave many books, left her mark in literature. The sky was created for birds, and the creator for the younger generation, for the sake of their future. Those who knew Estery will hear her voice, her inimitable laughter for a long time to come,» said Ekaterina Bebia, Doctor of Philological Sciences, journalist.
Estery Basaria's first publication appeared in the «Apsny Kapsh» newspaper when she was still at school. The publication of the story «Balagur» in the magazine «Youth» in 1969 is considered to be the beginning of the creative path of the writer.
«For me, the novel closest to my heart is Eteri Basaria's «The View Over the Gates Overlooking the Meadow». She was very open and profound in all of her writings. Eteri Basaria is also known as a talented literary scholar. Her articles on the works of Iuya Kogonia, Daur Zantaria, Vitaly Amarshan have taken a worthy place in the national literary studies, but, of course, she was first of all a writer,» said art historian Svetlana Korsaja.
«Despite the fact that Eteri Basaria did not live in Abkhazia for many years, she was soulfully attached to her homeland,» noted poet Alkhas Chkhamalia.
«She told me about her attachment to her homeland when we met in Crimea. Of course, this was reflected in her work, for example, the novel «A Look Over the Gate Going to the Meadow» tells about the life of an Abkhazian woman, all the characters are Abkhazian. She wrote in Russian, but, you could say, «in Abkhazian»,» Alkhas Chkhamalia said.
Eteri Basaria is the author of the books:
- «To the birds, the sky» (1975)
- «On our side» (1977)
- «The Giant and the Dolphin» (1979)
- «The first kilometres» (1980)
- «Rejeb and his kin» (1982)
- «The gaze over the gate overlooking the meadow» (1985)
- «And they talked till morning» (1986)
- «The Gentle mode» (1988)
- «Dydyn and Mydyn» (1988)
- «At the Crossroadsе» (1989)
- «Nar» (1990)
- «Guy is in the domain of the Obra» (2004).
Eteri Basaria was a member of the Presidium of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, was awarded the Volodymyr Korolenko Prize in 1999 and the Gogol Prize for her novel «The Wrong Triangle» in 2008.
Eteri Basaria passed away on 13 May 2013.