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Born in 1977 in the city of Sokhumi, Abkhazia (now occupied territory by Russia), Tea Topuria is a contemporary Georgian writer and poet. She graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University with a degree in journalism. She has worked and still works for a variety of media outlets and non-governmental organizations, is currently the journalist at Radio Liberty. Her works are printed in literary periodicals, with her short stories and poems being included in prose or poetry collections of Georgian authors. She has been nominated and is a laureate of various prestigious literary competitions and she has also been presented a few times for the international Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Tea Topuria is the author of six books, which differ radically from each other in terms of genre: a prose-poetry collection The Mint Threshing Floor, a collection of short stories Two Rooms in Cairo, a poetry collection Ecocide, Why the dogs don’t go to heaven, and two books in children’s prose: Parade Vacations; Fairy Tales for Waking Up. Young adult novels - One Long Day On Another Planet and The Invisible House.  
EUPL Year
2025
EUPL Country
Georgia
By Jacob's Well

Once upon a time, there was a small nation that was invaded by a horde. Some of the children of this nation remained behind, enslaved by the suddenly appearing enemy, while others migrated and settled in a new land. Their lives, of course, took different paths. Moreover, those who stayed in the Great Plain know nothing of the exiles, and the exiles have no idea what is happening in the Great Plain. Yet they are united by one crucial thing: despite their different geographies, the boundaries of their mental landscapes are remarkably similar—indeed, equally boundless. This is because the characters in their stories do not recognize the line between what is possible and what is impossible. These categories, one might say, even vanish, leaving only magic, the omnipotence of thought and imagination, which permeates their everyday lives.

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