Talk: ‘The Eight Life’ With Nino Haratischvili

In collaboration with the British Georgian Society, Pushkin House presents a discussion and reading from Nino Haratischvili’s internationally bestselling novel The Eighth Life (for Brilka).

Nino Haratischvili was born in Georgia in 1983 and is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and theatre director. At home in two different worlds, each with their own language, she has been writing in both German and Georgian since the age of twelve. In 2010, her debut novel Juja was nominated for the German Book Prize, as was her most recent Die Katze und der General in 2018. In its German edition, The Eighth Life was a bestseller and won the Anna Seghers Prize, the Lessing Prize Stipend, and the Bertolt Brecht Prize 2018. It is being translated into many languages and has already been a major bestseller on publication in Holland, Poland, and Georgia. In English, The Eighth Life is published by Scribe.

Nino Haratischvili will be in conversation with Tom de Waal of the British Georgian Society on the subject of her book and the wider historical narratives it explores, accompanied by readings from the book’s English translators, Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin.

The ticket price includes a glass of Georgian wine.