Born 1968, Irma Malatisdze is writer, Children’s book writer, journalist and translator. 2003 She graduated from The Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University. She Has worked as a journalist at Public Broadcasting and at several information agencies and newspapers, among them: Alia, Resonance, Georgian times etc. Irma Malatsidze was the winner as a debutant kinder writer of a competition New names in Georgian children literature organized by journal Dila in 2003. Since her first prize for the story Snail named Keramucha is systematically printed in a different literature editions. Irma Malatsidze is the founder and manager of the Children’s Literature Development Fundation. She was an initiator of creating national children’s book day (27th October) in Georgia. 2010 the foundation was listed in Astrid Lindgren’s award nominees.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Singing Frog - E-book for children with special needs, Children’s Literature Development Foundation, 2017
• My House- E-book for children with special needs, Children’s Literature Development Foundation, 2017
• Doctor Woodpecker (therapeutic stories, short stories for children), Artanuji, 2016 
• Proverbs – Tales (short stories for children) Sulakauri Publishing, 2015
• Handmade stories (short stories for children), Saunje, 2013
• Beauties of the Beauty Land (childrens’s novel), Shemetsneba, 2013
• Collection of Children’s Plays, Universali, 2010
• Alphabet (Poems for children), 2010
• Miscievous Luki in Time Land (children’s novel), Pegasi, 2009
• Vladimir Visotsky - Vacation in Vienna (short stories), Siesta, 2009
• Sweet Land (childrens’s novel) Sulakauri Publishing, 2004
• Phatia (short novel), 2004
• Snail named Keramucha (short stories for children). Tory, 2003
  

   

LITERARY PRIZES AND AWARDS 

• Winner of PenMarathon, 2018
• Winner of Iakob Gogebashvili’s Children’s Literary Prize in the category of Best Innovative Project for children, 2018
• Winner of Iakob Gogebashvili’s Children’s Literary Prize in the category of Best Project for children with special needs, 2017
• Special Prize for Literature Competition in the name of Murman Lebanidze, 2017
• Winner of Literature Competition - Odeoni, 2016
• Special Prize for Literature Competition Khvaramzeoba, 2016
• Grand-prix of the literature competition Shotaoba, 2014
• Winner of Literature Competition - Odeoni, 2014
• Winner as a debutant kinder writer of a competition New names in Georgian children literature organized by journal Dila, 2003

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