Shota Iatashvili

Shota Iatashvili was born in 1966 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is poet, fiction writer, translator and critic. He has published 10 poetry collections, 2 novel, one fairy tail, four works of prose, a book of literary criticism and 6 book of translations.

In 2007 and 2011 he won the SABA Prize, in 2020 – LITERA and in 2022 – Free LITERA – Georgia’s most prestigious awards, in 2009 International Poetry Award “Kievskie Lavri” (Ukraina), in 2018 polish literature award of Klemens Janicki for poetry book “Golden Ratio”, in 2018 Vilenica Crystal Award in Vilenica International Literary Festival (Slovenia) and in 2022 price for best poem in international poetry festival Plovdiv-Orpheus (Bulgaria).

His works have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Spain, Dutch, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Belarusian, Chinese, Korean, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Turkish, Arabian, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijanian languages. 

His books have been published in Ukraina, Poland and Azerbaijan.

His poems are included in various anthologies of Georgian authors published in English, German, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Azerbaijanian languages.

Currently, he is consultant of Tbilisi International Festival of Literature.