Irmi Horn
Irmi Horn introduces the author based on her novel “Merry, Blackbird, Blackberry Bush”, 2023 and compares with the film adaptation by NAVERIANI, Elene, CH/GEO 2023.
48-year-old Etero runs a small shop in a Georgian village. Her monotonous days are the same, and it seems that there is nothing that could disturb the dull routine – until the day she is in mortal danger while picking fresh blackberries. From then on, she allows herself things that she never dared to do before. She discovers her body late, secretly – always in fear of the stern eye of the village community – after her newfound feelings of pleasure and has to decide to what extent she wants to put her long-cherished independence at risk.
Tamta Melaschwili (c) Words Without Borders.
Tamta Melashvili, born in 1979, grew up in Georgia. She spent a year as a migrant in Germany, where she began to write. Melashvili graduated from the Central European University in Budapest in 2008. She currently lives in Georgia and works on women’s rights and gender issues.
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