![]() ![]() ![]() Counting Out is translated into German, Croatian, Russian, Albanian and English languages. Following year Melashvili’s work extended beyond Georgia and was nominated among the best ten in the 2012 Hotlist by Die Besten Bűcher aus Unäbhangigen Verlagen in Germany and won Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2013 in young adult category. Her short stories first appeared online on literary web-sites and later were included in different fiction anthologies. She is a feminist activist and has background in Gender Studies ( Central European University, Budapest). The novel was acclaimed by the critics as the work of "a new, highly distinctive voice" and won country’s top Literary Award Saba in 2011. Tamta Melashvili currently lives in Tbilisi, Georgia and works as a researcher and teacher at Tbilisi State University. In 2010 was published Tamta Melashvili’s debut work Counting Out which quickly gained success. She is a feminist activist and has background in Gender Studies ( Central European University, Budapest). South Caucasus Regional Office published a book 'Kato Mikeladze: Unknown Stories of Georgian Feminism' to introduce Kato Mikeladze, a feminist activist of the early 20th century to a wider public and spread the word about the heritage she contributed to the local feminist thought. Tamta Melashvili currently lives in Tbilisi, Georgia and works as a researcher and teacher at Tbilisi State University. ![]() Tamta Melashvili (born 1979) is a Georgian writer and a feminist activist. ![]()
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