კატო მიქელაძე - ქართული ფემინიზმის უცნობი ისტორიები by Tamta Melashvili

She published her first stories online some have subsequently appeared in anthologies. She has written about female migration, for example in Georgian Women in Germany - Empowerment through Migration? Empowering Aspects of Female Migration (Saarbrucken 2009). She now lives in Georgia, where she works on gender issues. In 2008 she completed a degree in gender studies at the Central European University in Budapest. However, she broke off her studies and spent a year living in Germany, where she started to write. After completing her secondary education she moved to the capital, Tbilisi, where she started a course in international relations. Her debut w Tamta Melashvili was born in Ambrolauri (in the northern part of central Georgia) in 1979. Counting Out is translated into German, Croatian, Russian, Albanian and English languages.Tamta Melashvili was born in Ambrolauri (in the northern part of central Georgia) in 1979. Following year Melashvili’s work extended beyond Georgia and was nominated among the best ten in the 2012 Hotlist by Die Besten Bűcher aus Unäbhangigen Verlagen in Germany and won Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2013 in young adult category. The novel was acclaimed by the critics as the work of 'a new, highly distinctive voice' and won country’s top Literary Award Saba in 2011. In 2010 was published Tamta Melashvili’s debut work Counting Out which quickly gained success. Her short stories first appeared online on literary web-sites and later were included in different fiction anthologies. She is a feminist activist and has background in Gender Studies ( Central European University, Budapest). Tamta Melashvili currently lives in Tbilisi, Georgia and works as a researcher and teacher at Tbilisi State University.

Tamta Melashvili (born 1979) is a Georgian writer and a feminist activist.

კატო მიქელაძე - ქართული ფემინიზმის უცნობი ისტორიები by Tamta Melashvili