Alexey Gogua

Alexey Gogua (born March 15, 1932, Gup, Abkhazia, Georgia, U.S.S.R. [now Abkhazia, Georgia]—died May 7, 2025) was an Abkhazian writer credited with introducing the psychological novel to Abkhazian literature. Gogua grew up in Abkhazia and began publishing in the late 1940s. He graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow in 1960. He is best known as a prose writer, and much of his work deals with historical themes, chronicling life in Abkhazia in both...