We were delighted to welcome Khatuna Tskhadadze, a literary translator, scholar, and President of PEN Georgia, for our 2025 Literature Residency in partnership with English PEN.
Khatuna's acclaimed translations include The Complete Cosmicomics, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, and The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino; The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, and The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco; Ragazzi di Vita by Pier Paolo Pasolini; and Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi.
She has also brought into Georgian the works of Luigi Pirandello, Cesare Pavese, Melania Mazzucco, Elena Ferrante, Maggie Nelson, and many other authors. Working from both Italian and English, she has received multiple literary honours, including the SABA Literary Award (2015, 2017), the GALA Award (2011), and the Machabeli Prize for Translation (2023).
