Books by Gvantsa Jobava
Gvantsa Jobava is Chair of the Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association and international projects manager and Editor at Intelekti Publishing. She is the author of a poetry collection, Cardiogram, and the translator, from English into Georgian, of books including John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. She is the co-editor, with Becca Parkinson, of The Book of Tbilisi, and head of the publishing programme for Georgia’s Guest of Honour presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018.
Interviews with Gvantsa Jobava
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The Knight in the Panther Skin
by Lyn Coffin (translator) & Shota Rustaveli -
2
Kvachi
by Donald Rayfield (Translator) & Mikheil Javakhishvili -
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A Man Was Going Down the Road
by Donald Rayfield (Translator) & Otar Chiladze -
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The Lame Doll
by Ani Kopaliani (translator), Besik Kharanauli & Timothy Kercher (translator) -
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The Cushion
by Elizabeth Heighway (translator), Irakli Samsonadze & Philip Price (translator)
The Best of Georgian Literature, recommended by Gvantsa Jobava
The Best of Georgian Literature, recommended by Gvantsa Jobava
How does a country left in ruins by 70 years of Soviet oppression rebuild its literature? It starts from scratch and breaks all the rules. Gvantsa Jobava reveals the riches of Georgian literature, from 12th-century feminist epics to radical, experimental accounts of a post-Independence underworld