Shota Iatashvili

Poet, prose writer, translator and art critic.

The winner of the literary prize “Saba” in 2005, in the nomination of the best poetic collection of the year. Author of 8 poetry and 3 short story collections.

His works have been translated into English, German, French, Russian, Romanian, Azerbaijani, Dutch, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, and Albanian.

Participated in international poetry festivals:

ORIENT-OCCIDENT (Curt de Arges, Romania, 2006), EST-QUEST (Di, France 2006),

Poetry International (Rotterdam, 2007),

5th and 6th Poetry Biennale (Moscow, 2007, 2009),

SOTZIA (Tallinn, 2008),

“Poetry Days” (Riga, 2008),

Киевские лавры (Kiev, 2009)

and others.

He translated the works of Susan Sontag and American poets into Georgian.