INSEL lesen mit Nino Haratischwili

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Four Georgian women, who, like the author, grew up in the 1990s, are at the center of the novel "The Lack of Light". They meet years later at the opening of a retrospective of the photographer Dina, who is no longer alive. Dina's photos take Keto, Nene and Ira back to the time of their youth together in Tbilisi. The journey through time is painful and raises questions. Haratischwili tells of growing up in a traditional, patriarchal society in which violence and war are inscribed as rituals. As different as the women's life plans are, they are all shaped by the time of war and social upheaval.

Nino Haratischwili was born in Tbilisi in 1983. Her mother fled with her to Germany in 1995. Behind the Georgians lay the armed conflicts of the South Ossetia War, which ended with Georgia losing its first independent president after the Soviet era in a coup.

Nino Haratischwili returned to Georgia alone in 1997 at the age of 14. She founded a German-Georgian theater group for which she wrote and directed plays. She began studying theater directing at the State School of Film and Theater in Tbilisi, which she continued in 2003 at the Theaterakademie Hamburg, graduating in 2007. She writes and directs plays in Göttingen, Hamburg and Berlin and writes short stories, essays and novels. "The Lack of Light" is her fifth novel. Haratischwili has been honored for her literary work with the Anna Seghers Prize and the Carl Zuckmayer Medal.

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