Ekaterine Togonidze and Luka Lashkhi
Ekaterine Togonidze is a georgian journalist, author, lecturer and activist for the rights of people with disabilities, Ekaterine Togonidze, was born in Tbilisi in 1981. Ekaterine Togonidze made her literary debut in 2011 with her short story collection “Anesthesia” with which she introduced a new theme to Georgian literature: the discrimination against disabled people in society. The book was awarded the SABA Literary Prize for the best debut of the year in 2012. She also was the winner of different literary competitions including the best story of the year (Sulakauri publishing prize), The BEST SHORT STORY (Literary Magazine) and the script development competition (Georgian National Film Center). She has got the Writing Scholarship of Writers’ House and was a scholarship holder for residency of Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB). Her first novel “Asynchrony” was translated into German. Her latest novel “You-Home” became a best-seller immediately after its release. Her works have also appeared in magazines in Georgia and abroad, and have been translated into English, German, Czech and Abkhazian. Luka Lashkhi is Georgian artists, who is well-versed in different disciplines including comic art, screenwriting, storyboards, visual storytelling, drawing and filmmaking. Luka Lashkhi has participated in different comics residencies, art and publishing projects. Has self-published four comic books during past four years. The main goal of Luka Lashkhi to participate in the project «The Visual Stories from Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine» is to contribute to the development of comic genre in Georgia and create one of his most important comic works.
