Nodar Djin
{{short description|Soviet writer (1947-2002)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Nodar Djin
| image = Nodar Djin.jpg
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| birth_name = Nodar Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1947|1|8}}
| birth_place = Tbilisi
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|4|4|1947|1|8}}
| death_place = Washington, D.C.
| nationality = Georgian
| other_names = Nodar Djindjihashvili
| occupation = writer, journalist, philosopher
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| known_for =
| notable_works = Last Journey
Five Tales of Vanity
The Story of My Suicide
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Nodar Djin ({{langx|ru|Нодар Джин}}; January 8, 1947 — April 4, 2002)[https://jewish.ru/ru/news/articles/32123/ Умер Нодар Джинджихашвили] // jewish.ru was a Georgian-born Russian writer, journalist and philosopher.
Biography
Born in Georgia, lived in Moscow. His grandfather was a rabbi, his father was a lawyer. In 1963, he graduated from the philological faculty of the Tbilisi University, in 1966 at the VGIK. In 1968 he defended his thesis on aesthetics, and in 1977 became the youngest Doctor of Philosophy in the history of the USSR. He worked at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, at Moscow State University and Tbilisi State University.
From 1980 he lived in the USA,[https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/1441177/ Пять повестей о суете]
where he worked in the field of radio and photojournalism, published books on the philosophy. Professor of Philosophy, in 1981, he won the Rockefeller Prize in Humanities. His documentary Last Journey, created by his own photographs, won a number of prizes at international film festivals in the United States. He was fluent in eight languages.[http://www.georgianjews.org/stat.php?id=578&lang=ru&PHPSESSID= Памяти Нодара Джинджихашвили]
Djin authored many studies on philosophy and cultural history, aesthetics and psychology, as well as novels. The American press called him a strikingly versatile and sophisticated intellectual, and The New Republic in connection with his sensational case against the Voice of America radio station, called him Citizen Djin by analogy with the hero of the classic film Citizen Kane.[http://business.highbeam.com/4776/article-1G1-12295287/citizen-djin-voice-america-scandal Citizen Djin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829023131/http://business.highbeam.com/4776/article-1G1-12295287/citizen-djin-voice-america-scandal |date=2016-08-29 }}}, Citizen Djin: a Voice of America scandal. (Nodar Djindjihashvili) Article from: The New Republic | June 15, 1992 | Weisberg, Jacob[https://archive.today/20120719001754/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/councilnone/message/514 Voice of America Scandal Citizen Djin]
His older brother is known chess player Roman Dzindzichashvili.[https://www.peoples.ru/sport/chees_player/roman_dzindzichashvili/ Энциклопедия шахмат] His daughter is poet Yana Djin.[http://www.maginet2006.narod.ru/yanadjin.html Яна Джин. Это абсолютно точный голос.]
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|5004123}}
- [http://nodardjin.narod.ru Nodar Djin: Fiction]
- [http://lib.ru/NEWPROZA/DJIN/istoria.txt Нодар Джин. История моего самоубийства]
- [http://magazines.russ.ru/authors/d/ndzhin/ Нодар Джин в Журнальном зале]
- [https://9musesjournal.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%bd%d1%81-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%b8%d1%8e-%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b0-%d0%b4%d0%b6%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b2-%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%ba%d0%b0%d1%85-%d0%bc/ Литературная премия имени Нодара Джина]
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Category:Jews from Georgia (country)
Category:Soviet emigrants to the United States
Category:Tbilisi State University alumni
Category:21st-century American philosophers
Category:20th-century American philosophers
Category:Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
Category:20th-century Russian journalists
Category:Academic staff of Moscow State University