IN DEPTH
Guest of Honour Author interview
Award-winning novelist Tamta Melashvili reflects on feminism in her home land, and how fiction can build bridges
Questions by Tom Tivnan
TheBookseller.com
TT Can you just tell us about your writing background
and publications to date?
SR I am a writer, feminist activ- ist and teacher currently
living in Tbilisi, Georgia, but I am quite a nomad —I have lived and worked in different countries and places. I have been published since 2010, and in those eight years I have released two novels and one short-story collection, and my work has been included in several Georgian and German fiction anthologies. I have been translated into German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian and Albanian. Some of my short Continues overleaf
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