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For the duration of her four-week stay in London, Nino will spend time writing and engaging with UCL staff and students, speaking at the European Writers’ Festival at the British Library, and taking part in related events.
Born in Tbilisi in 1983, Nino Haratischwili is a novelist, playwright, and theatre director. She writes in German and is among the most acclaimed and widely-read authors of contemporary German literature. She lives in Berlin.
Her third novel, The Eighth Life (for Brilka) (German/FVA 2014; Scribe UK/English 2019), was translated into thirty languages and became an international bestseller. It won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the Anna Seghers Prize, and the Bertolt Brecht Prize, and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.
The Lack of Light (German/FVA 2022; English/HarperVia 2025) is her most recent novel. Set in post-Soviet Georgia, it was praised by the Financial Times as ‘an epic edge-of-the-seat tale of friendship and political chaos.’