Grigory Chkhartishvili was born on May 20, 1956 in Georgia in the family of artillery officer Shalva Chkhartishvili and Russian language and literature teacher Berta Brazinskaya. In 1958, the family moved to Moscow. In 1973 he graduated from English school number 36. He graduated from the historical and philological department of the Institute of Asian and African Countries (Moscow State University), has a diploma in Japanese historian. He was engaged in literary translation from Japanese and English. Translated by Chkhartishvili, Japanese authors Yukio Mishima, Kenji Maruyama, Yasushi Inoue, Masahiko Shimada, Kobo Abe, Shinichi Hoshi, Takeshi Kaiko, Shohei Ooka, as well as representatives of American and English literature (Coraghessan Boyle, Malcolm Bradd bury, Peter Ustinov, etc.)