Authors’ Reading Month/ ავტორთა კითხვის თვე 2017 - Eka Qevanishvili/ ეკა ქევანიშვილი

ავტორთა კითხვის თვე / Authors’ Reading Month 2017 – ეკა ქევანიშვილი / Eka Qevanishvili Brno 7. 7. / Wrocław 8. 7. / Ostrava 9. 7. / Košice 10. 7. / Львів 11. 7. www.autorskecteni.cz www.autorskecitanie.cz www.misyacavtorskykhchytan.com.ua http://www.msa.wroclaw.pl Cinematographer David Konečný Production © Větrné mlýny (www.vetrnemlyny.cz) All rights reserved Eka Qevanishvili Journalist, poet, feminist born in Tbilisi in 1979. In 2002, she graduated from Tbilisi State University's Journalism Faculty with a master’s degree in journalism; she has been working as a reporter since 2000. Qevanishvili has published four books of poetry (in 2006, 2010, 2013 and 2016); her 2013 collection, Selling the House, received the Saba literary award for best poetry collection in 2014. She has also authored a collection of literary essays – or, ‘literary profiles’. Eka Qevanishvili's work has been translated into English, Lithuanian, German and Russian. Her poetry is characterized by the diversity of themes and topics – war, conflict, social injustice, feminism. Her latest poetry collection The Evacuation Plan was called “a manifest of some kind, a collection of slogans and challenges to revolt and fight.’ She has been working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Tbilisi bureau, since 2008.