Writer, playwright, stage director, was born in 1983 in Tbilisi. She is currently living in Hamburg (Germany) and working in the theatres of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Theatre critics consider her one of the most promising playwright and director.
Nino Kharatishvili (Haratischwili) has been publishing plays and novels in the German language for more than 10 years. She is the author of the novels “Juja” (2010|), “My Gentle Twin” (2011). IN 2014 her new novel “The Eighth Life (for Brilka)” was published to a great acclaim in European countries. Haratischwili is awarded with numerous literary and theatre prizes; including the prize of the German Independent Publishers, Heidelberg Theatre festival award and many more. Her plays are successfully running in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia and Georgia.
My Gentle Twin
(Excerpt)
I look at your face: so pale, so peaceful, and I still have the old, familiar feeling, and mistrust it even as I am experiencing it. I wonder how it can be that I feel nothing but this closeness. Even now... I will not be able to explain this feeling to anyone: I am not permitted to experience it, in view of events, in view of the future, my future. But it is so, and slowly I accept it, this emotion, which seems to outlast everything. I stand here alone, for the first time, in all senses of the word: in mind, body and soul. But this time too, my feeling, your feeling, that is, the feeling that I, here and now, your face before my eyes, am experiencing, seems to overcome all fear, to block it out.
English translation copyright © 2011 Ross Benjamin