Tamri Pkhakadze
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July 28, 1957
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| Born | Tamri Pkhakadze July 28, 1957 Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, translator |
| Genre | Prose, Short story, Drama |
| Literary movement | Metamodernism |
| Notable works | Kitchen Gardening in a War Zone, 2010 |
| Children | Nino Kapanadze |
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Tamri Pkhakadze (IPA: [tʰamɾi pʰχakʼadze]; Georgian: თამრი ფხაკაძე; born 28 July 1957) is a Georgian writer, playwright, children's author and translator.[1]
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.[2] 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, ISBN 978-9941-35-262-1
- Long-nosed Sorcerer Marcia, King Chubby the First and Others,[3] Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-9941-2370-0-3
- Hymn of Alphabet, Palitra L Publishing, 2012
- Three Tales for New Year, Publishing House Triasi,
- Digits in Motion, Palitra L Publishing, 2012
- A Merry Train, Palitra L Publishing, 2012
- The Adventure of Globus and Luka,[4] Pegasi Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-9941-9179-8-1
- Gio in Africa, Palitra L Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-9941-413-59-9
- Three Under the Sun, Palitra L Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-9941-192-44-9
- Kitchen Gardening in a War Zone, Shemecneba Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-9941-9109-2-0
- Khachapuri, Palitra L Publishing, 2010
- CV,[5] Shemecneba Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-9941-9108-4-5
- Three of Us and the Angel,[6] Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-99940-998-9-4
- Flying, Publishing House Abuli, 2007, ISBN 978-99940-69-26-2
- Passions, Palitra L Publishing, 2006
- My Faraway I,[7] Diogene Publishing House, 2005
- Until We are Summoned, Diogene Publishing House, 2003
Translations
- Dina Rubina — Petrushka's Syndrome, Tbilisi, Palitra L Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-9941-24-883-2
Screenplays
- Vegetable garden in the conflict zone[8] (2022), a drama film (1h 24m) directed by Beso Solomanashvili
