The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller

About Nino Haratischvili

Nino Haratischvili was born in Georgia in 1983 and is an award-winning novelist playwright and theatre director. At home in two different worlds each with their own language she has been writing in both German and Georgian since the age of twelve. In 2010 her debut novel Juja was nominated for the German Book Prize as was Die Katze und der General in 2018. Her third novel The Eighth Life has been translated into many languages and is an international bestseller. It won the Anna Seghers Prize the Lessing Prize Stipend and the Bertolt Brecht Prize and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. She lives in Berlin. Charlotte Collins studied English Literature at Cambridge University and worked as an actor and radio journalist in Germany and the UK before becoming a literary translator. Her co-translation with Ruth Martin of Nino HaratischvilisThe Eighth Life won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and in 2017 she was awarded the Goethe-Instituts Helen and Kurt Wolff Translators Prize for Robert Seethalers A Whole Life. Other translations include Seethalers The Tobacconist Homeland by Walter Kempowski and Olga by Bernhard Schlink. Ruth Martin studied English literature before gaining a PhD in German. She has been translating fiction and nonfiction books since 2010 by authors ranging from Joseph Roth and Hannah Arendt to Volker Weidermann and Shida Bazyar. She has taught translation at the University of Kent and the Bristol Translates summer school and is a former co-chair of the Society of Authors Translators Association.