Ollie Matthews took up Georgian lessons whilst reading French and Russian at Jesus College, Oxford. He has been a member of the Oxford Georgian Translation Project since its inception. His translations have appeared in Unlocking the Door (Cezanne, 2017) and Stories from Saba: Selected Tales from The Book of Wisdom and Lies (Cezanne, 2023). He is one of the translators of Goderdzi Chokheli’s Human Sadness (Dedalus, 2024) and Fish Letters (Dedalus, 2025).
Ollie is a writer of both long and short fiction, and has produced a body of travel memoir based on his experiences in the post-Soviet space. He is currently working on a novel about contemporary life in England amidst imminent societal collapse.
