Elena Botchorichvili

Elena Botchorichvili is a Georgian-Canadian writer and journalist who writes in Russian.

In 1992, she moved to Canada on an invitation and met her future husband, sports journalist Richard Chartier, who worked for the La Presse newspaper. They had a son, George, in 2001.

In early 2015, Corpus released another collection titled Just Wait and Watch, which included four previously unpublished works and three stories that had already been released in Russian. Bacharyshvili's novella Opera was performed on stage at the Tsaritsyn Opera Theatre in Volgograd.

Bochorishvili's works have been translated into French, Italian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Georgian. In 2010, the novella Opera was published in Georgian, and in 2016, a collection titled Stenographic Novels was released, featuring the novellas My Fragrant Uncles and Scented Grandmothers, My Father's Head, and Sauvki.