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The meeting with a well-known contemporary Russian author of Georgian origin Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) by the invitation of Georgian National Book Center and in cooperation with Ilia State University takes place on 18th October, 19:00 at Ilia State University.
BORIS AKUNIN is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, who was born in Soviet Georgia in 1956 to a Georgian father and Russian-Jewish mother. His family moved to Moscow when he was two. A bestselling Russian writer of suspense-filled detective novels, most famously the Inspector Fandorin and the Sister Pelagia mystery series, he has also been a literary translator from Japanese and English into Russian. Several of his novels have been made into films. novels, including The Winter Queen, The Turkish Gambit, The State Counsellor and The Decorator. His Fandorin mysteries are set in 19th-century Tsarist Russia, at a time when Georgia was part of a Russian empire stretching across Europe and Asia.
The event will be held in discussion format in English language. At the end of the meeting he will be awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa.
The meeting will be moderated by an award-winning literary critic and cultural journalist Maya Jaggi, collaborator of Georgian National Book Center. She was described as ‘one of Britain’s most respected arts journalists’ by Britain’s Open University, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2012 for an outstanding contribution to education and culture. Maya Jaggi was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, and writes for publications including Financial Times and the Guardian, where she was one of Guardian Review’s chief arts profile writers for a decade. She has interviewed 12 Nobel prizewinners in literature, and been a judge of international literary awards such as Dublin Impac Prize and, as jury chair, the Man Asian Literary Prize in Hong Kong. In April this year she was Artistic Director of Where Europe Meets Asia: Georgia25, a week-long ‘cultural feast’ in London of writers’ talks, films, wine and song to mark 25 years since the restoration of Georgian independence. Created in association with the Georgian National Book Center in Tbilisi directed by Medea Metreveli, and with writers including Boris Akunin, Dato Turashvili, Zurab Karumidze and Lasha Bugadze, Georgia25 captured the attention of the British media. Georgian writers appeared on some of the BBC’s most important radio shows, including Radio 4’s Today Programme and World Service Newshour.
Date: 18 October; Time: 19:00
Address: Ilia State University, 32 Chavchavadze ave., room B202
BORIS AKUNIN is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, who was born in Soviet Georgia in 1956 to a Georgian father and Russian-Jewish mother. His family moved to Moscow when he was two. A bestselling Russian writer of suspense-filled detective novels, most famously the Inspector Fandorin and the Sister Pelagia mystery series, he has also been a literary translator from Japanese and English into Russian. Several of his novels have been made into films. novels, including The Winter Queen, The Turkish Gambit, The State Counsellor and The Decorator. His Fandorin mysteries are set in 19th-century Tsarist Russia, at a time when Georgia was part of a Russian empire stretching across Europe and Asia.
The event will be held in discussion format in English language. At the end of the meeting he will be awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa.
The meeting will be moderated by an award-winning literary critic and cultural journalist Maya Jaggi, collaborator of Georgian National Book Center. She was described as ‘one of Britain’s most respected arts journalists’ by Britain’s Open University, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2012 for an outstanding contribution to education and culture. Maya Jaggi was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, and writes for publications including Financial Times and the Guardian, where she was one of Guardian Review’s chief arts profile writers for a decade. She has interviewed 12 Nobel prizewinners in literature, and been a judge of international literary awards such as Dublin Impac Prize and, as jury chair, the Man Asian Literary Prize in Hong Kong. In April this year she was Artistic Director of Where Europe Meets Asia: Georgia25, a week-long ‘cultural feast’ in London of writers’ talks, films, wine and song to mark 25 years since the restoration of Georgian independence. Created in association with the Georgian National Book Center in Tbilisi directed by Medea Metreveli, and with writers including Boris Akunin, Dato Turashvili, Zurab Karumidze and Lasha Bugadze, Georgia25 captured the attention of the British media. Georgian writers appeared on some of the BBC’s most important radio shows, including Radio 4’s Today Programme and World Service Newshour.
Date: 18 October; Time: 19:00
Address: Ilia State University, 32 Chavchavadze ave., room B202