Nino Haratischwili

Nino Haratischwili, born in Tbilisi in 1983, first studied directing at the State University for Theatre and Film there before continuing her studies in theatre directing at the Theaterakademie Hamburg. Today, she is an award-winning playwright and director. In 2008, she received the Authors’ Prize for Liv Stein at the Heidelberg Stückemarkt, as well as the Rolf-Mares-Preis in the category Outstanding Production for Agonie. In 2010, she was awarded the Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis. Her debut novel Juja (2010) was longlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis and shortlisted for the ZDF aspekte Literature Prize, winning the Buddenbrookhaus Debut Prize in Lübeck in 2011. That same year, her second novel My Gentle Twin (2011) received the Longlist Prize of the Independent Publishers. For her novel The Eighth Life (for Brilka), she received a Grenzgänger grant from the Robert Bosch Stiftung for research in Russia and Georgia and was awarded the Literature Prize of the Cultural Circle of German Business in 2015.
Most recently, she rewrote three female figures from classical antiquity for the stage: Phaedra, in Flames; Penthesilea. A Requiem; and No Fate, Clytemnestra.