Tamta Melashvili
Tamta Melashvili ( Georgian თამთა მელაშვილი ; * 1979 in Ambrolauri , Ratscha-Letschchumi and Lower Vanetia ) is a Georgian writer.
Life
Tamta Melashvili was born in 1979 in the city of Ambrolauri in northwest Georgia. After graduating from school, she lived in Tbilisi , where she began studying "International Relations", which she broke off. She then moved to Germany for a year, where she experienced first hand what it means to be a migrant and began to write about it. In 2008 she was able to complete a degree in “Gender Studies” that began at Budapest's Central European University .
One of her first publications deals with female migration ( Georgian Women in Germany - Empowerment through Migration? Empowering Aspects of Female Migration. Saarbrücken 2009). Her novel Counting received the German Youth Literature Prize in 2013 . In 2014 it was premiered in a theater version by Konradin Kunze at the Bremen Theater. A new novel by Tamta Melashvili is in the works.
She currently resides in Georgia, where she is committed to women's and gender issues. From December 2014 to May 2015, Tamta Melaschwili stayed in Zurich as Writer in Residence for the Literaturhaus Zürich and the PWG Foundation .
Works
- Counting: Roman. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-293-00439-9 .
- Techno of the Jaguars: New storytellers from Georgia. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-627-00192-6 .
Awards
- 2013: German Youth Literature Prize for counting
Web links
- Literature by and about Tamta Melaschwili in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Tamta Melaschwili at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Review in Weser Kurier , accessed on October 8, 2014.
- ↑ gratzfeld.ch accessed on December 15, 2013
- ^ Website Writers in Residence Zurich
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melashvili, Tamta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | მელაშვილი, თამთა (Georgian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ambrolauri , Georgia |