Nodar Djin

Nodar Djin (Russian: Нодар Джин; January 8, 1947 — April 4, 2002)[1] was a Georgian-born Russian writer, journalist and philosopher.

Nodar Djin
Born
Nodar Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili

(1947-01-08)January 8, 1947
Tbilisi
DiedApril 4, 2002(2002-04-04) (aged 55)
Washington, D.C.
NationalityGeorgian
Other namesNodar Djindjihashvili
Occupationwriter, journalist, philosopher
Notable work
Last Journey
Five Tales of Vanity
The Story of My Suicide

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 MSU and TSU.

From 1980 he lived in the USA[2], 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. Fluent in eight languages.[3]

Author of 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.[4][5].

His younger brother is known chess player Roman Dzindzichashvili.[6] His daughter Yana Djin.[7]

gollark: I mean, Ethernet can do 10Gbps over... eight wires, is it?
gollark: I think the problem is more that university education seems to suffer stupidly high costs for some mysterious reason, and throwing giant amounts of tax money is unlikely to help.
gollark: They're very... political and... systemic, yes.
gollark: Don't you *love* regulatory capture?
gollark: Or legalize *only* recreational orbital bombardment but not nukes, to encourage development of space technology.

References
  1. Умер Нодар Джинджихашвили // jewish.ru
  2. Пять повестей о суете
  3. Памяти Нодара Джинджихашвили
  4. Citizen Djin Archived 2016-08-29 at the Wayback Machine}, Citizen Djin: a Voice of America scandal. (Nodar Djindjihashvili) Article from: The New Republic | June 15, 1992 | Weisberg, Jacob
  5. Voice of America Scandal Citizen Djin
  6. Энциклопедия шахмат
  7. Яна Джин. Это абсолютно точный голос.
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