Guranda Pachulia’s Workshop “Translating José Luís Peixoto’s Poetry into Georgian”

On Friday, the 9th December, at 19:00, at the TSU Portuguese Language Center [Building II, room 203], we will have a Translation Workshop, focusing on translating José Luís Peixoto’s Poetry into Georgian. The workshop is intended for Portuguese language students (or anyone with at least a A2 command of the language).
The resulting translations of this workshop will be read in the upcoming event: “Recitative in the City with José Luis Peixoto”, that will take place on the 16th December, at the Movement Theater, at 21:00, as part of José Luís Peixoto’s visit in Tbilisi.

José Luís Peixoto was born in Galveias in 1974. He has a degree in modern languages and literature from the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. His literary work has been translated into twenty languages so far. He has received many distinctions and prestigious awards, among others the José Saramago Prize 2001 and the Libro dEuropa Award 2010, and he was shortlisted for the Portugal Telecom Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Femina Prize.
José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugals most acclaimed and bestselling contemporary novelists. His latest novel GALVEIAS sold already over 30,000 copies in Portugal.

Guranda Pachulia taught Italian at TSU between 2004 and 2011. Since 2012 she has been working at the Brazilian Embassy in Tbilisi and this year she also teaches Portuguese at the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was awarded the Camões Institute Scholarship in 2005-2006.

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This event is part of a series of Conferences/Workshops in English titled "Portuguese and Brazilian Culture for Beginners", taking place throughout the present academic year at the Portuguese Language Center at TSU and is open to anyone who wishes to know a bit more about Portugal and Brazils traditions, music, literature, society, cultural heritage, etc..
To keep updated on the various conferences/workshops to come, check the Portuguese at TSU facebook page regularly (facebook.com/portugueseattsu)
Entrance is free!