Gabriel Tanye is Soso Gachava’s  literary pseudonym.

Born in 1971, studied to be a film director before pursuing a clerical career. Together with his church duties he also taught drawing and decorative felt production in Samtskhe-Javakheti and Pshav-Khevsureti, the most strategically important border regions of Georgia.

He organized four exhibitions with his students, as well as initiated several significant projects in eastern Georgia, among them: restoration of three old churches and launching the construction of an important Roshka-Arkhoti highway. As a cameraman he documented the events of the war between Russia and Chechnya.

 
For the last two years Gabriel Tanye has lived in Prague, where he serves for the Orthodox Church of the Czech Republic.

His first novel THE SONS OF CANAAN is Intelekti's bestseller of 2017.