Nana Ekvtimishvili

Nana Ekvtimishvili, born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1978 is a writer and movie director. She first published stories in 1999 and in 2011 directed her first short film, Waiting for Mum. In 2013, she and partner Simon Groß released the feature film In Bloom, which was hailed as the birth of the new Georgian wave and won numerous awards at festivals in Berlin, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, LA, and Sarajevo, and was Georgia’s entry for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her latest film, My Happy Family, was first released at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. The Pear Field is her first novel. It was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize.