Tamri Pkhakadze


Tamri Pkhakadze is a Georgian writer, playwright, children's author and translator.
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Biography

Tamri Pkhakadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1979 as a philologist. She has a PhD in philology.
1980-2006 she worked in the Old Georgian Literature department at the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature. In 2011 she has been working for the publishing house "Triasi" as editor in chief.
She has published novels, collections of prose, plays and children’s books. Several children’s songs have been composed to her verses. Quite a few of her works have been staged in various theatres, among them Kitchen Gardening in a War Zone, which has been performed in four different cities.

Works

Books

Stop, Kira, Stop!, Palitra L Publishing, 2022, Long-nosed Sorcerer Marcia, King Chubby the First and Others, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2016, Hymn of Alphabet, Palitra L Publishing, 2012Three Tales for New Year, Publishing House Triasi,Digits in Motion, Palitra L Publishing, 2012A Merry Train, Palitra L Publishing, 2012The Adventure of Globus and Luka, Pegasi Publishing, 2011, Gio in Africa, Palitra L Publishing, 2011, Three Under the Sun, Palitra L Publishing, 2011, Kitchen Gardening in a War Zone, Shemecneba Publishing, 2010, Khachapuri, Palitra L Publishing, 2010CV, Shemecneba Publishing, 2009, Three of Us and the Angel, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2007, Flying, Publishing House Abuli, 2007, Passions, Palitra L Publishing, 2006My Faraway I, Diogene Publishing House, 2005Until We are Summoned, Diogene Publishing House, 2003

Translations

Screenplays

Vegetable garden in the conflict zone, a drama film directed by Beso Solomanashvili

Prizes and awards

  • Nominated for Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2015 for work dedicated to children
  • "Literary Palette" magazine Prize of 2005 for the story Kitchen Gardening in a War Zone
  • Literary Award SABA 2004 in the category The best Debut for the collection Until We are Summoned
  • Winner of Kvali association competition in 2003 for the story ''A Two-Faced Day''