Hans Promwell, born in 1991 in Zugdidi is pen name of Giorgi Shonia. He studied at the Faculty of Business at Ilia State University in Tbilisi. 2017 he completed his MA of Philology in Foreign Languages and Comparative Literature at the same university. 2013 he participated in the literary project – ‘International Translation Masterclass in Poetry’, together with Ukrainian, Belorussian and Lithuanian poets. Giorgi Shonia’s/ Hans Promwell’s poetry collection Fabrication won Literary Award LITERA 2017 in the category The Best Debut. Giorgi Shonia’s poetry has been translated into German, Lithuanian, Belorussian and Ukrainian languages. Giorgi Shonia’s two poems from the collection are included in anthology of Modern Georgian Poetry in Germany (Größenwahn Verlag, 2018).

LITERARY PRIZES AND AWARDS

Literary prize LITERA 2017 in the category The Best Debut of the Year for Fabrication


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