Born in 1982, is a journalist, poet and promising writer. Luka Bakanidze published his first literary works in the journal Literaturuli Palitra and instantly gained readers’ interest. The young author mainly attracts attention with his authentic writing style and extraordinary topics. along with prose Bakanidze has authored an interesting poetry collection, which was published in 2010 by Caucasian House. In 2014 Publishing House Palitra L offered to Georgian audience Luka Bakanidze’s debut Novel The Third Shore, which instantly became popular not only among the wide circle of readers but gained critics' interest as well and was nominated as the best debut book of the year at literary award SABA.