After graduating from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University and receiving Ph.D. in History, Zurab Batiashvili worked in the Georgian Parliament, the European Department of the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi. At present he works in the Council of Security and Crisis Management of Georgia. He has... Read more >
A literary historian and critic, Ph.D. in Literature (2005), Member of Gelati Academy (2003), Laureate of The Literary Saba Award (three times). He was born in 1947 in Tkibuli, west Georgia. After finishing school in his native town, in 1965-74 he studied Georgian Philology and Journalism in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University. At... Read more >
Anna Kalandadze (1924-2008), the 20th century great Georgian woman poet, is translated into major European languages, including Arabic and Turkish. A ballad-like quality of her poems, with complex... Read more >
Rustam Raza was born in 1782 in Tbilisi to Armenian parents. He was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold in Cairo, where the sheikh presented him to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798.... Read more >
Nika Rurua, a filmmaker by education, had planned to make a film once Georgia became a NATO member. Anyone who knew him would easily guess the film's subject: the Russian occupation a century... Read more >
