An interview with Ms. Gvantsa Jobava, President of the International Publishers Association (IPA)

Abstract

The interview questions were sent in March 2026, and her responses were received in June 2026. Alongside her role as President of the Association, Ms. Jobava also works for a publishing house in Georgia. She has published works in children’s literature, poetry, and nonfiction, and has translated works by Saul Bellow and John Lennon from English into Georgian. She also translated Anna Politkovskaya’s “Putin’s Russia” from Russian into Georgian. Her translation of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” was nominated for the SABA Literary Award for Translation in 2016. Ms. Jobava is also a literary editor. Together with Becca Parkinson, she co-edited an anthology of Georgian short stories translated into English, entitled Tbilisi Book (2017).