Born in 1977, Lela Samsniashvili is a contemporary Georgian poet.

 

In 1999 she graduated from Ilia Chavchavadze University of Foreign Languages and in 2001 got the post-graduate qualification in simultaneous interpretation. She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley in 2001-2003. In 2007 she completed her Master’s Degree in Oslo University. In 2017 she got her Doctoral Degree in Educational Sciences from Tbilisi State University.

 

Her poetry collections have been nominated for and awarded with numerous literary prizes. Her poems are translated into the English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Azerbaijan and Russian languages.

 

Her poetry work includes: PHOTO-PILLS (2000); THE SNAKE YEAR (2004); A PERMANENT TATTOO (2006); FRACTALS (2010); AN ABSTRACT PRAYER (2014) and 37 (2017).

 

She has translated: Sylvia Plath’s Poems (World Poetry Series, 1999); Virginia Woolf, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN (2007); Sylvia Plath, THE BELL JAR (2009; 2014); William Shakespeare, HAMLET (2019).