16 May

18:00 Festival Opening: Meeting with Nino Haratischwili (Germany / Georgia) Language: Georgian. Writers’ House, 13, Ivane Machabeli Street.

19:30 Meeting with Ludwig Laher (Austria)

Language: German / Georgian

Writers’ House

21:00 Poetry Jam + Jazz (all participant poets) Writers’ House

22:00 Marathon of Young Georgian Poets /

Language: Georgian

Writer’s House

 

17 May

18:00 Discussion: Women Writers on the verge of activism with Tamta Melashvili (Georgia), Hasmik Simonian (Armenia), Ester Naomi Perquin (Netherlands), moderator: Tata Tsopurashvili / language: English / Georgian.

Frontline Georgia Club, 62 L.Asatiani Str.

18:30 Poetry evening with Sergio Badilla Castillo (Chile) and Kristian Carlsson (Sweden) /

language: Spanish / Swedish / Georgian.

Caucasian House

19:30 Meeting with DBC Pierre (UK) /

language: English / Georgian. Writers’ House

21:00 Poetry Evening with Yurii Andrukhovych (Ukraine) and Tadeusz Dąbrowski (Poland)

language: Ukrainian / Polish / Georgian.

Writers’ House

 

18 May

17:00 Sergio Badilla Castillo (Chile) meets students / language: Spanish

TSU, V block, room 3.

17:00 Kristian Carlsson (Sweden) meets students / language: Swedish

TSU Center for Scandinavian Studies

18:30 Poetry evening with Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Japan) and Ester Naomi Perquin (the Nethernalds) / language: Japanese / Dutch / Georgian

Caucasian House

19:30 Poetry evening with Lia Sturua (Georgia), book presentation “Wolf Hour”

Writers’ House

21:00 Meeting with the author Dmitry Bykov (Russia), moderator Shota Iatashvili /

language: Russian / Georgian

Writers’ House

 

19 May

15:00 Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Japan) meets students / language: Japanese.

Free University, 240, Aghmashenebeli Alley

18:30 Caucasian Evening with Hasmik Simonian (Armenia), Seymur Baycan (Azerbaijan) and Lela Samniashvili (Georgia). Caucasian House

19:00 DBC Pierre (UK) meets Ilia State University Students. Bookhouse Ligamus

32, Chavchavadze Ave.

20:00 Discussion: Soviet Inheritance in Post-Soviet Literature with Yurii Andrukhovych (Ukraine), Dmitry Bykov (Russia), Seymur Baycan (Azerbaijan) and Levan Berdzenishvili (Georgia) / language: Russian / Georgian

Writers’ House

21:30 Poetry: Enemies Project – UK/Georgia

with Zura Jishkariani, Lia Likokeli, Zaza Koshkadze / Steven J Fowler, Eley Williams, Luke Kennard / language: English / Georgian

Writers’ House

 

20 May

18:00 Meeting with Sadik Yalsizucanlar (Turkey) / language: Turkish / Georgian

Writers’ House

19:30 Susan Shillinglaw (USA) talks about John Steinbeck. Fragments from documentary by O. Zhgenti “Steinbeck and Russian Journal” / language: English / Georgian

Writers’ House

21:00 Meeting with the author Etgar Keret (Israel) moderator: Dato Turashvili

language: English / Georgian

Writers’ House

22:30 Poetry Night in the Writers’ House garden

 

21 May

13:00 Shakespeare for Children: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Vaso Guleuri, Davit Gabunia

language: Georgian

Writers’ House

15:00 Giorgi Kekelidze (Georgia) meets young readers – “Personal experience as literature”.

Writers’ House

17:00 Poetry evening with Alex Galper (USA) / language: Russian / Georgian

Writers’ House

19:00 Etgar Keret (Israel) meets Ilia State University Students.

Bookhouse Ligamus

20:30 Special Film Screening: A Woman from Marketplace (1928) directed by G. Makarov, based on Eugen O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms. with live music.

Writers’ House

 

Sponsors:

Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia

The US Embassy in Georgia

Goethe Institute in Tbilisi

Embassy of Japan in Georgia

Polish Book Institute

Embassy of Austria

Austrian Library

Embassy of The Netherlands in Georgia

UNDP

International Literature Showcase

 

Partners:

Arili

Indigo Media

New Saunje

Artarea

National Broadcast