Nino Haratischvili

Apr 21, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Cory Oldweiler |Chiara Marchelli |Tobias Carroll |Nino Haratischvili

Nino Haratischvili has said that personal history didn’t significantly factor into her fiction until her third novel, 2014’s The Eighth Life, a Brobdingnagian epic chronicling the twentieth century in her native Georgia. She was born in the capital, Tbilisi, in 1983, when the country was still a Soviet Republic, and spent the chaotic first years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union moving between Georgia and Germany, where she ultimately settled in 2003.