Writer · Researcher · Long-form

Long-form writing that makes complex ideas clear.

I’m Niko Lortkipanidze, a freelance writer with a background in English Philology. I research carefully, structure long arguments, and explain difficult ideas in plain, precise English.

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Portrait of Niko Lortkipanidze
11
writing samples, each with a full PDF
19,000+
words across the collection
2
research papers with full reference lists
4
forms: research, criticism, fiction, translation
01 · Research & analysis

Structured, sourced, and argued

Long-form pieces built around a clear question, evidence from named sources, and a conclusion that earns its place.

Research paper

The Soul’s Slow Smithy: Organization and Re-Composition in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

≈ 2,500 words · abstract, 3 research questions, references

Argues that Stephen Dedalus wins artistic freedom by reforging language, social codes, and nationalism rather than simply rebelling, and ties the novel’s five-part structure to that process using four critical sources.

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Research paper

The Spatial Form of Subjectivity: Time, Feminine Writing, and Post-Impressionism in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

≈ 2,100 words · abstract, 3 research questions, references

Reads the novel’s three-part structure as spatial form and combines three critical frameworks to show how its formal experiments serve its feminist and philosophical aims.

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Critical essay

Fact Over Fable: An Education in Sontag’s Doctrine

≈ 1,900 words · on Illness as a Metaphor

Makes the case for ethical and factual precision in how we talk about illness, following Sontag’s argument against the myths that grew around tuberculosis, cancer, and AIDS.

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“Joyce presents true artistic freedom as an act of profound creative mastery over one’s own confinement.”
From the Joyce paper, by Niko Lortkipanidze
02 · Film criticism

Close readings of cinema

Reviews and analyses that connect what is on screen to the ideas behind it.

Film analysis

Guilt and Redemption in Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring

≈ 1,600 words

Follows guilt through every character in Bergman’s medieval tragedy, using the cinematography, the clash of pagan and Christian faith, and the final miracle of the spring.

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Film analysis

Bergman’s Cries and Whispers: the colour of the soul

≈ 2,850 words

A close reading of the 1972 chamber piece: its red interiors, its four women, and the way memory and grief reshape the past.

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Summary & review

Zeffirelli’s Tea with Mussolini

≈ 1,400 words

Summarizes the plot and gives a verdict, setting the film’s eccentric English and American women against the rise of Fascist Italy.

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03 · Fiction & translation

Voice and range

Short stories, monologues, and a poem in translation: the creative side of the same attention to language.

Short story · Chapter one

August Untamed

≈ 2,250 words

The opening chapter of a story narrated by a young Englishman torn between a cold, proper home and the Mediterranean summers that made him feel alive.

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Short story

Undusted Bookshelves

≈ 1,600 words

A carer slowly learns that her patient’s story of a bookshop was never a trick, and what that means for how she sees the woman and her family.

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Monologue

Callas

≈ 1,100 words

A restless first-person piece sparked by an evening at the opera, circling talent, doubt, and the fear of a voice that never finds its vessel.

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Prose portrait

Mother

≈ 1,100 words

A mother seen through coffee, smoke, and silence: tender, unsparing, and told in close first person.

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Flash fiction

Francesca

≈ 700 words

An old woman watches a church lose its doors and measures her own usefulness against it.

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Poetry translation · Georgian → English

Zviad Ratiani’s “Negative, after 20 Years”

Translation of a Georgian poem

An English rendering of a poem about silence, complicity, and memory. Because the original is another poet’s work, the full text is shared on request.

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04 · Approach

What you can expect

Long-form structure

Pieces of 2,000+ words with a clear question, a logical argument, and a conclusion that ties it together.

Research you can check

Claims tied to named sources, with full reference lists in the research papers.

Hard ideas, plain words

Literary theory, film, and medical humanities explained so a non-specialist can follow.

Range of voice

Analysis, criticism, fiction, and translation, each written to suit its reader.

05 · About

Writing has always been the main thing

I’m a Tbilisi-based writer with a Bachelor’s degree in English Philology from Caucasus University. Writing is my passion, and I have worked as a freelance writer. I have also taught English since 2022 and worked in client-facing roles, most recently as a Sales Account Manager running paid social campaigns, where I turned data and client needs into clear plans and regular reports.

Now I’m looking to move from freelance projects to a contract writing role where I can write full time, keep learning, and deliver careful work to a clear brief.

Based in
Tbilisi, Georgia
Languages
Georgian · English (advanced)
Education
B.A. English Philology, Caucasus University
Also
English tutor since 2022 · Sales Account Manager, Social Boost (2025–2026)
06 · Contact

Let’s talk about your next piece

I’m open to contract writing roles. More samples are available on request.

nikolortkipanidze28@gmail.com LinkedIn +995 557 299 091