2nd Tbilisi International Festival of Literature Program
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