born 1948.

In 1971 she graduated from the Journalism Department of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University. In 1969 she published her first story and since then has been publishing her work in Georgia, Russia and other foreign countries.

In 1987 she was awarded the prize of the Georgian Writers’ Union for her publicist essays In the Gorges of Agitated Sleep.

In 1989 Maka Jokhadze was invited to Paris to participate in the World Conference of Female Writers organized by the Georges Pompidou Centre. In 2012 and 2103 she was on the panel of the literature competitions Alliteration and Free Fall organized by Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University.

Maka Jokhadze has published collection of stories: Guram-Guram (1976), Saved Landscape (1984), Meeting (1985); novels: Eternal Circus (1997), Pebbles Thrown into the Dead Pond (2013); My David Kldiashvili (monograph, 1995, 2012), Shifting of the Sun (articles and essays, 1988), Victory Over Fear (essays, 1999), Paradise Without Love (critical essays and literary portraits, 2010), The Sunken Celebration (diary entries and notes, 2013) and Pine-Trees in the Desert (Short stories, 2017).