Nana Abuladze

Nana Abuladze is a fiction writer and a literary scholar from Tbilisi, Georgia. She is the author of two books: her debut novel Akumi [აკუმი], which has received the two most prestigious literary prizes in Georgia – the Saba and Litera prizes – explores the themes of gender, sexuality, identity and spirituality. Her second book The New Perception (A Mass for Women Soloists and a Mixed Choir) [ახალი აღქმა (მესა სოლისტი ქალებისა და შერეული გუნდისათვის)] is a collection of stories about female biblical characters. It was nominated for the Tsinandali Award (the annual award for artists and scholars under 30). Nana’s upcoming book is the study of gender and authorship in the 20th century Georgian fiction.

 

Nana was a 2022 fall resident at the University of Iowa in the framework of the International Writing Program. A two-month stay in the US inspired her to write her first poems in English: ‘The Lovers’ and ‘The Water Tower’. ‘The Water Tower’ then appeared in the 69th issue of Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine. ‘The lovers’ will be published in The Writers of Loam anthology (Iowa City).