Iwa Pesuaschwili

Iwa Pesuaschwili, born in 1990, is a writer and screenwriter. He authored several television documentaries and began publishing stories in magazines in 2012. His debut collection, “I Tried,” was published in 2014. His first novel, “The Gospel of Coming Down” (2018), was nominated for the major Georgian literary prizes. For “Garbage Disposal,” Pesuaschwili received the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) in 2022, along with other awards, including the Tsinandali Prize for Best Prose and the Special Jury Prize of the SABA Prize in 2021.