7th Tbilisi International Festival of Literature Program
9 September. Friday
18:00 Official opening
18:30 Discussion: Literature in the Footsteps of Memory - Fiction.
Nino Kharatishvili, Beso Solomanashvili. In conversation with Giga Zedania.
Language: Georgian
19:30 Poetry evening of Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine).
Moderated by Shota Iatashvili, translator
Language: Ukrainian / Georgian
20:30 Poetry night “Home” with participation of festival guests
10 September. Saturday
17:00 Discussion: Home-watchers in
Literature.
Jessica Traynor (Ireland), Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine), Niloufar Talebi (USA / Iran).
Moderated by Khatuna Tskhadadze.
Language: English / Georgian
18:00 Life and Poetry of Robert Duncan.
Tara McDowell (Australia) and Irakli Kolbaia talk about McDowell’s biographical book The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess.
Reading of Duncan’s poetry and Georgian translations: Irakli Kolbaia and Dato Barbakadze.
Language: English / Georgian
19:00 Dialogue on Medea.
Playwright Andreas Flourakis (Greece) in conversation with Irine Darchia.
Language: English / Georgian
20:00 Poetry evening: Sergej Timofejev (Latvia) and Dmitri Strotsev (Belarus).
Translators: Nene Giorgadze and Shota Iatashvili.
Moderated by Shota Iatashvili.
Language: English / Georgian
21:00 Poetry evening: Jessica Traynor and John O’Donnell (Ireland).
Presentation of the Anthology of Irish Poetry.
Translators: Manana Matiashvili and Zaza Koshkadze.
Moderated by Paata Shamugia.
Language: English / Georgian
11 September. Sunday
17:00 Discussion: Eastern Europe as Literary Space.
Participants: Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine), Justyna Bargielska (Poland), Martin Solotruk (Slovakia).
Moderated by Paata Shamugia.
Language: English / Georgian
18:00 Poetry Evening: Greta Ambrazaite and Dominykas Norkunas (Lithuania).
Translator: Nana Devidze.
Presentation of the anthology of young Georgian poets published in Lithuanian.
Moderated by Salome Benidze.
Language: English / Georgian
19:00 Presentation of A Small Center of the World by Krzystof Czyżewski and meeting with author.
Translator: Davit Kandrevich. Moderated by Keti Kantaria.
Language: Polish / English / Georgian
20:00 Poetry evening: Martin Solotruk (Slovakia) and Justyna Bargielska (Poland).
Translators: Paata Shamugia, Shota Iatashvili and Keti Kantaria.
Language: English / Georgian
Participation of Matrin Solotruk in the festival is supported by the Slovak Arts Council.
21:00 Poetry evening: Ariane von Graffenried (Switzerland).
Translators: Dato Barbakadze, Bela Chekurishvili and Ana Kopaliani.
Moderated by Nuka Gambashidze.
Language: English / Georgian
12 September. Monday
19:00 Discussion: Literature in the Footsteps of Memory – Nonfiction.
Nino Lomadze, David Jishkariani, Jimsher Rekhviashvili.
Moderated by Giorgi Maisuradze.
Language: Georgian
13 September. Tuesday
19:00 Writing about History. Living with the Past.
Bernhard Schlink (Germany) in conversation with Nino Lezhava.
Language: German / Georgian
The visit of Bernhard Schlink in Tbilisi is organized by Goethe Institute.
21:00 A Garbage Chute – winner of the European Union Prize for Literature 2022.
Meeting with author Iva Pezuashvili.
Moderated by Paata Shamugia.
Language: Georgian
14 September. Tuesday
19:00 What Do You Call a Homeland? - “Questionnaire” by Max Frisch.
Maia Panjikidze (translator) and Thomas Strässle (president of the Max Frisch Foundation).
Language: German / Georgian
21:00 Closing event of the festival. Poetry marathon with participation of Georgian poets.