Gvantsa Jobava is a President at International Publishers Association and the head of international Affairs at Intelekti Publishing, one of the biggest publishing houses in Georgia, previously — chairperson of the Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association and the head of the publishing program for Georgia’s activities as guest of honor at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair. In 2013-2022 she was the organizer of Tbilisi International Book Festival. Since 2013, Gvantsa Jobava has been lobbying for the Georgian publishing industry, advocating Georgian publishers’ interests and rights, standing for copyright and freedom to Publish and Freedom of Expression in Georgia. She has managed a number of projects to promote Georgian publishing and literary industry at international level. she is a member of Women Publishers’ International Network – PublisHer. In 2020 she joined PEN Georgia. She is a poet and a translator of works of John Steinbeck, Chinua Achebe, Saul Bellow, John Lennon and others. She has also translated Anna Politkovskaya’s book “Putin’s Russia” and “A Message from Ukraine” by Volodymyr Zelensky into Georgian. She is the author and editor of the publishing project “Banned Books Shelf” and the founder of Banned Books Week celebrations in Georgia.
