2nd International Festival of Literature starts in Tbilisi

Georgia is holding the 2nd Tbilisi International Festival of Literature , which will last until May 21. The event will be attended by novelists, essayists, translators, poets from the US, Chile, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Japan, Israel and Australia.

The Australian author Peter Warren Finlay (DBC Pierre) who won the Man Booker Prize in 2003, a well-known Israeli writer, screenwriter and playwright Etgar Keret, the Georgian writer Nino Kharatishvili, a young British poet Luke Kennard, a Dutch poet Ester Naomi Perquin, Russian and American poet Alexander Galper, Ukrainian poet and translator Yuri Andrukhovych and others are among guests of the festival.