Ekaterine Gabashvili

Writer and enlightener

1851–1938

Ekaterine Gabashvili was a writer of the national-revival generation, a fellow campaigner of Ilia Chavchavadze and Akaki Tsereteli. She wrote about the lives of ordinary people and did much for women's education in Georgia.

Her best-known story is “Magdana's Donkey”, about a poor widow and her children. It later became the film “Magdana's Donkey” (1955), which won the short-film Palme d'Or at Cannes.