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I thought it was a prank —Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of 2021 Nobel prize in literature

I thought it was a prank —Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of 2021 Nobel prize in literature
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In Search of Lavrenti Beria

In Search of Lavrenti Beria Tamta Melashvili s 2015 novel, Eastwards , from which this excerpt comes, is the story of a young woman, Irina, in present-day Georgia, who is simultaneously suffering from depression, a vanished lover, and a taboo medical condition, vaginismus. She is researching Elene Dariani, a mystical poet believed to have had a secret affair with the famous Georgian poet Paolo Iashvili. Cofounder in 1915 of the Blue Horn Symbolists, Iashvili committed suicide in 1937 during Stalin’s Great Purge, when many Georgian writers were executed. In this extract––which references other famous Georgian poets such as Titsian Tabidze and Galaktion Tabidze––Irina is beginning to imagine that Stalin’s secret police chief Lavrenti Beria (who, like Stalin, was Georgian) was implicated in the poets’ mythic love affair.

A Small Country

A Small Country Lasha Bugadze s A Small Country , which won the Saba, IliaUni, and Writers’ House Litera prizes in Georgia––all for novel of the year in 2018––is based on the real scandal surrounding the publication of the author s 2001 short story “The First Russian.” The story outraged some MPs and clergy with its satirical allusions to the wedding night of Georgia’s revered medieval Queen Tamar, whose first husband was a Russian prince. The author found himself censured in parliament and threatened with excommunication.   I remember the man sitting at an oak table took two pieces of paper from a drawer and addressed me with a smile: 

Georgias Fantastic Tavern Where Europe Meets Asia

Tel: +44 (0)1937 546546 An online festival of Georgian writers from the Caucasus, with food and song, inspired by the café culture of the first democratic republic of 1918-21 This is an online festival. Booking is required for each session, and ticket holders will be sent links by email. PROGRAMME Thursday 25 February 18.00 – 19.10 Festival Launch featuring Katie Melua plus From the Blue Horn Poets to the Red Century: Nino Haratischvili in conversation with Maya Jaggi. Thursday 25 February 19.20 – 20.40 Liberty’s Feast and Hangover: with Dato Turashvili and Aka Morchiladze Saturday 27 February 14.00 – 14.45 In the Tbilisi Cafe Kitchen: with Luka Nachkebia Saturday 27 February 15.15 – 16.35 Medea’s Daughters: Georgia’s pioneering women in the arts. With Nana Ekvtimishvili and Tamta Melashvili

Zimbabwean writer Petinah Gappah

Zimbabwean writer Petinah Gappah  2287 views Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin. Early years Petina Gappah was born in Zambia, in Copperbelt Province. She has said: My father, like many skilled black workers who could not get jobs in segregated Rhodesia, sought his fortune elsewhere. He and my mother moved to Kitwe, a town on the booming Zambian copper belt. She was brought up in Zimbabwe, where her parents returned when she was nine months old. After the country’s

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