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Shota Iatashvili - Lela Samniashvili / Joseph F. Keppler / Nina Kossman
Shota Iatashvili was born in 1966 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is a poet, fiction writer, translator and art critic. He has published a significant number of poetry collections, one novel, four works of prose and a book of literary criticism. In 2007 and 2011 he won the SABA Prize, and in 2020 — LITERA — Georgia’s most prestigious awards, in 2009 International Poetry Award Kievskie Lavri (Ukraina), in 2018 polish literature award of Klemens Janicki for poetry book Golden Ratio and in 2018 Vilenica Crystal Award in Vilenica International Literary Festival (Slovenia). His works have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Turkish, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijanian etc. languages. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of the literary journal Akhali Saunje and consultant of Tbilisi International Festival of Literature.
Born in 1977 in Gori, Lela Samniashvili is a poet, translator, and doctor of educational sciences. She got her degrees in English literature and Philosophy of Higher Education from Tbilisi and Oslo Universities. She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. She is the author of 6 collections of poetry translated into a number of languages, as well as Georgian translations of works by William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf and other English language writers.
Joseph F. Keppler is an artist, a poet, an essayist and a contributing editor at ē·rā/ tiō.
Moscow born, Nina Kossman is a bilingual writer, poet, translator of Russian poetry, painter, and playwright. Among her published works are two books of poems in Russian and in English, two volumes of translations of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems, two books of short stories, an anthology published by Oxford University Press, several plays, a book of poems in English, and a novel. Her work has been translated into Greek, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. She received a UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award, an NEA fellowship, and grants from Foundation for Hellenic Culture, the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, and Fundación Valparaíso. She lives in New York.
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