Dato (David) Magradze was born in 1962; in 1984 he graduated from Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Philology. He has published several collections of poems, including Marula (1987), Nikala (2002), Salve (2004), Nafexurebi cyalze (The Steps on the Water) (2011) and Giacomo Ponti (2011). His books have been translated into Armenian, English, German, Italian, Russian […]
The poet, story writer and artist, Tinatin Mgvdliashvili, was born in 1955. In 1976 she graduated from the Tbilisi College of Modern and Traditional Art and since 1987 her stories and poems have been regularly published in leading Georgian magazines and newspapers. She has published many collections of poems, including Shindisperi vtsere Leksebi (The Poems […]
Diana Anphimiadi is a poet, publicist, linguist and teacher. She holds a PhD from the linguistic institute at the Tbilisi Javahkishvili University. Diana has published four collections of poetry, Shokoladi (Chocolate 2008), Konspecturi Mitologia (Resumé of Mythology, 2009), Alhlokhedvis Traektoria (Trajectory of the Short-Sighted, 2012 and Chrdilis Amoch’ra (Cutting the Shadow, 2015). Her poetry has […]
Nato Ingorokva has published three collections of poems, The Poet Eve Lives within Me (2003), The Dry and the Damp (2011) and Equilibrium (2013). Nato is also a translator; in 2005 her translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Selected Poems was published to great acclaim. She is editor in chief of the prestigious literary journal, Mastsavlebeli […]
Prize-winning poet and short-story writer, Tea Topuria was born in 1977 in Sochumi, Georgia. In 1998 she graduated from the faculty of Journalism at Tbilisi State University. In addition to her poetry collection Ecocide, Tea has published a number of highly acclaimed books of short stories including The Mint Threshing Floor, The Book of Tales, […]
Born in 1986, in a remote village of Khevsureti in high mountainous region of Georgia, with only 50 inhabitants, is a rising star of contemporary Georgian literature scene. After graduating secondary school Lia moved to capital city and entered Georgia State University of Theatre and Film, majoring in movie directing. For a short period of […]
Born in 1986 in Kutaisi, Salome Benidze is a contemporary young author, already well-established in the Georgian literary scene. She studied journalism, public relations and political science at Tbilisi State University, Vilnius University and Alexander Technological Institution of Thessaloniki. Georgian readers are well acquainted with her poetry, prose and translations. In 2012, Salome Benidze received […]
Born in 1968, Maia Sarishvili studied pedagogy and currently teaches at a primary school. A mother of four children, she surprises audiences with her new sound in Georgian poetry, displaying a realistic and concrete touch that she refashions in her spiritual search for the nature and power of woman. Sarishvili has published poetry collections and […]
Watch three short videos from the Georgian Poet Tour featuring, Salome Benidze and Diana Anphimiadi, their poet-translators, the English poets Helen Mort and Jean Sprackland alongside the PTC’s Georgian translator Natalia Bukia-Peters.