Giorgi Shonia (გიორგი შონია, b. 1991), alias Hans Promwell, is native of Zugdidi. He studied at the Faculty of Business at Ilia State University in Tbilisi. In 2017, he completed his MA of Philology in Foreign Languages and Comparative Literature at the same university. In 2013, he participated in the literary project – ‘International Translation Masterclass in Poetry’, together with Ukrainian, Belorussian and Lithuanian poets. Giorgi Shonia’s Hans Promwell’s poetry collection “Fabrication” won the Literary Award LITERA 2017 in the category of Best Debut. Giorgi Shonia’s poetry has been translated into German, Lithuanian, Belorussian and Ukrainian languages. Giorgi Shonia’s two poems from the abovementioned collection are included in anthology of Modern Georgian Poetry in Germany (publ. by Größenwahn Verlag, 2018). (Source: book.gov.ge)