Irma Shiolashvili

Irma Shiolashvili, or Irma Shiolashvili-Britze (IPA: [irmɑ ʃiɔlɑʃvili]; Georgian: ირმა შიოლაშვილი; born 29 March 1974 in Dedoplistsqaro) is a Georgian poet, translator and journalist.

Irma Shiolashvili
Shiolashvili in 2014
BornIrma Shiolashvili
(1974-03-29) March 29, 1974
Dedoplistsqaro, Georgia
OccupationPoet, translator
GenrePoetry
Literary movementModernism
Notable worksA Bridge of Colourful Leaves, 2009
SpouseJoachim Britze
Website
armuri.4forum.biz/t831-irma-shiolashvili

Biography

Irma Shiolashvili was born in 1974 in Dedoplistsqaro, Georgia. She studied journalism at Tbilisi State University and later at University of Bonn, Germany. During her studies in Tbilisi she worked in the cultural department of the National Georgian Television, where she produced TV programs about contemporary Georgian writers.

In 1995 she became one of the youngest members of the Georgian Writers' Union.

In 1999 Irma Shiolashvili moved to Germany, where 2005 she defended PhD thesis on German and Georgian political postwar poetry.

In 2007 she was admitted to the European Writers' Association 'The Kogge'.

In 2012 her book A Bridge of colourful leaves[1] was published in German translation by Pop Publishing House Ludwigsburg/Germany (Kaukasische Bibliothek, Volume 3). Her poems have been also translated into Russian, English and French.

Irma Shiolashvili lives in Bonn and works as a journalist and lecturer.

Works

Books
  • Monday, Saunje Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-9941-442-77-3
  • A Bridge of Colourful Leaves, Editor Miho Mosulishvili, Saari Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-99940-60-75-7
  • Trace of Tears, Merani Publishing, 2002, ISBN 99928-946-0-1
  • The Blue Bow, Mecniereba Publishing, 1996
  • Non-existing Word, Merani Publishing, 1992

Translations
  • Techno der Jaguare – Neue Erzählerinnen aus Georgien,[2] Verlag Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2013, ISBN 978-3627001926

Prizes and awards
  • Prize of the successful woman emigrant,[3] Tbilisi, 2017

References
  1. Irma Shiolashvili: "Eine Brücke aus bunten Blättern"
  2. Techno der Jaguare – Neue Erzählerinnen aus Georgien
  3. Prize of the successful woman emigrant (In georgian)
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