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Her literary work moves between Georgian and German, exploring the transitions of language, identity, perception, and reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between 1999 and 2003, she published poems and short prose in Georgia in anthologies alongside other authors. Concurrently, she co-founded the Art-Club art center in Kutaisi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the context of the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, she translated texts that served as the basis for screenplays of Georgian films from the era of political upheaval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, she was recognized in the &#8220;Literature in the Languages of Berlin&#8221; program and received a working grant from the Berlin Senate for non-German-language literature for her novel <em>Du kannst den Staub wegpusten<\/em> (<em>You Can Blow the Dust Away<\/em>). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vooo.space\/\">Vooo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1979 in Kutaisi, Georgia. She studied journalism at the University of Kutaisi, as well as cultural studies and Russian studies at the University of Potsdam (graduating in 2011). 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