Giorgi Kekelidze

Giorgi Kekelidze (Georgian გიორგი კეკელიძე, also: Giorgi Kekelidze; born April 10, 1984 in Osurgeti ) is a Georgian poet and essayist. Winners of Georgian Literature premium Saba, founder and chief editor of the Internet Library lib.ge. Since 2012 he is General Director of Georgian National Library.

Life

Kekelidze completed in 2009 to study at the Faculty of Philology at Tbilisi State University. From 2006 to 2008 he worked in the prison of Rustavi as a teacher of Georgian language and literature. Since 2009 he has presented various literary-critical shipments to various radio stations. Since 2010 he is a literary columnist for the magazine "Tabula " and producer of the TV show " Red Zone". Editor of the Georgian journals " focus " and " Tbilisi OUT". He gives lectures on classical literature at the Free University of Tbilisi. He serves on the board of the Georgian PEN Club. Since 2012 he has presented the literary television show "interpretation" - a joint project of the "Free University of Georgia ," lib.ge and the newly founded cultural channel " Akhali arkhi " (Eng. " New channel" ) - where along with the studio audience about the reinterpretation of the classical literature is discussed.

Work

The poetic work Kekelidses includes several collections of poetry, including " the Odes ", for which he was the Georgian literary prize SABA was giving "the best debut of the year" for 2009. In 2011, the publishing house " Siesta " an action - Books on the plate - was launched. The printed in the printing house book sheets are not bound as a book, but sold on the plastic plates in the supermarkets. The first book of the action was the poem "The Raven" by Kekelidze.

In addition to his poetic work Giorgi Kekekildseal works as a translator. Among his translations are several Austrian poet, tales of the world and the novel by the Russian writer Sergei Dorenko "2008". His own poems have been translated into English, Russian and Azerbaijani language.