Tamar Bartaia, writer, playwright, Doctor of Art History, is the member of World Association of Women Playwrights. She is the author of numerous screenplays for feature and documentary films, and the winner of the Eurasia International Documentary Film Festival Grand Prix. Also, she has twice received the First Prize of the Georgian National Film Centre and is four times winner of the Drama Competition of Tumanishvili Foundation, has received the literary prize Saba and Four Edinburgh Stars. Her plays are translated into English, Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Armenian, Turkish and German and are staged in Georgia as well as in Lithuania, Russia, Great Britain and other countries.