Irma Shiolashvili
Irma Shiolashvili, or Irma Shiolashvili-Britze (; ; born 29 March 1974 in Dedoplistsqaro) is a Georgian poet, translator and journalist. Biography. Irma Shiolashvili was born in 1974 in Dedoplistsqaro, Georgia. She studied journalism at Tbilisi State University and later at University of Bonn, Germany. During her studies in Tbilisi she worked in the cultural department of the National Georgian Television, where she produced TV programs about contemporary Georgian writers. In 1995, she became one of the youngest members of the Georgian Writers' Union. In 1999, Shiolashvili moved to Germany, where, in 2005, she defended PhD thesis on German and  Georgian political postwar poetry. In 2007, she was admitted to the European Writers' Association 'The Kogge'. In 2012, her book "A Bridge of colourful leaves" was published in German translation by Pop Publishing House Ludwigsburg/Germany (Kaukasische Bibliothek, Volume 3). Her poems have been also translated into Russian, English and French. Shiolashvili lives in Bonn and works as a journalist and lecturer.