Lit in Translation

Nino Haratischwili

Born 1983 · Georgia, Germany

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Warwick Prize 2020 · Winner

    The Eighth Life (for Brilka)

    Das achte Leben (Für Brilka)

    Nino Haratischwili · 31 when first published

    Novel · 934 pages · Family, Historical, Politics

    Translated by Charlotte Collins, Ruth Martin

    AI-generated summary:In Georgia in 1900, the daughter of a chocolate maker is born, and her family's story unfolds over six generations, told a century later in Berlin by a great-granddaughter to her twelve-year-old niece, who has run away.

  • No English yet

    Deutscher Buchpreis 2018 · Shortlist

    Die Katze und der General

    Title translated by AI:“The Cat and the General”

    Nino Haratischwili · 35 when first published

    Novel · 763 pages · War, Crime

    AI-generated summary:Alexander Orlov, a Russian oligarch known as the General, has started a new life in Berlin, but he cannot escape his memories of the First Chechen War and of the night that left the young Chechen woman Nura dead.