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. The German translation (Unionsverlag, Zurich 2012) was chosen for the „Hotlist” of the best ten books published by independent publishers in 2012 and in 2013 awarded with the prestigious „Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis”.Tamta Melashvili was born in Ambrolauri (in the northern part of central Georgia) in 1979. The novel was awarded the Saba Prize for the best literary debut in 2011. Her debut work „Gatvla” (Counting out) was acclaimed by Georgian critics as the work of „a new, highly distinctive voice”. 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. Her debut w Tamta Melashvili was born in Ambrolauri (in the northern part of central Georgia) in 1979.
Tamta Melashvili was born in Ambrolauri (in the northern part of central Georgia) in 1979.
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