Yslar Tatuky was born in 1960 in the small mining town of Tkibuli, Georgia. He grew up in a poor, working-class family with three other siblings. Yslar was only two years old when his father died in a car accident. He graduated from Moscow State Art and Cultural University in 1992 with a degree in librarian studies. He had been in business for many years. In 2022, Austin Macauley Publishers in London published Yslar Tatuky's book, My Neighbour Osama Bin Laden. Currently, he lives in Tbilisi, Georgia, and devotes himself entirely to writing.