Giorgi Maisuradze (born 1970 in Tbilisi) studied History, Philosophy, and the History of Culture at universities in Tbilisi, Saarbrücken and Berlin. He has worked at Berlin Literary and Culture Research Centre since 2008. Maisuradze received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Berlin Humboldt University in 2009. He has been Assistant Professor at Ilia Chavchavadze Tbilisi State University since 2010. Giorgi Maisuradze is an author of several non-fiction books. In 2012, he received the SABA Literary Award for the Best Essays and Documentary Prose of the Year for The Closed Society and its Watchmen.