Giorgi Kekelidze
Since March 2012 he has been general director of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.
Giorgi Kekelidze
Giorgi Zhamerashvili (გიორგი ჟამერაშვილი) · VRT · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Full name
- გიორგი კეკელიძე.
- Born
- 1984. · Ozurgeti.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Georgia.
- Occupation
- poet, librarian, writer, essayist, lecturer, television presenter and philologist.
- Fields
- detective fiction and essay.
- Education
- Tbilisi State University.
- Known for
- Odebi and Gurian Diaries.
- Honours
- Saba prize, Baratashvili Award, Tsinandali Award and Guram Rcheulishvili Award.
- Languages
- Georgian.
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Since March 2012 he has been general director of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.
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Giorgi Kekelidze (born 1984) is an essayist, lecturer and librarian, among other activities, a national of Georgia and the Soviet Union. The essayist was born გიორგი კეკელიძე in Ozurgeti.
Giorgi Kekelidze was educated at Tbilisi State University. The essayist held the position of library director and worked in National Library of Georgia.
Among the works are Gurian Diaries and Odebi. The work spans detective fiction and essay. Languages used include Georgian. Honours include Baratashvili Award, Guram Rcheulishvili Award and Saba prize, among others.
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Life
Life
Giorgi Kekelidze studied at Tbilisi State University. The recorded working language is Georgian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are detective fiction and essay. Shota Rustaveli, W. Auden and Hafez are recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are National Library of Georgia. Positions recorded include library director. Works named in the authority record are Odebi and Gurian Diaries. Distinctions recorded are Saba prize, Baratashvili Award, Tsinandali Award and Guram Rcheulishvili Award.
Born in Ozurgeti, Giorgi Kekelidze graduated from the Department of Philology at Tbilisi State University with master's degree in Humanitarian Sciences. From 2006 to 2008 he worked at the penal Institution of Rustavi as a teacher of the Georgian language and literature. Since 2009, he has presented various literary-critical programs at different radio stations. From 2010 he is a literary columnist for the magazine Tabula. He delivers lectures on Classical literature at the Free University of Tbilisi. Since 2012 he hosts a literary show "Interpretation" on the Akhali Arkhi television channel. In 2012 he founded a charitable organisations "Lib-Equilibrium" and "Lib-Club". In the same year, he became an author and a host of the show program "Litarea". In 2012, he was appointed as a director of National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. He began reforms in several directions - digitalization, service, TV programs, also opened various thematic corners, including foreign libraries etc. Georgian libraries opened in Istanbul, Kiev, Vienna and other countries' libraries. He created a library of e-learning library syndicate, which united regional libraries. As a result of his activities in 2012, the National Library was awarded with the name of Tolerance of the Year. In 2013, Kekelidze met in a director of the Library of Congress, James Billington in Washington DC. As a result of their agreement, Georgian digital archives were opened for the archival of the world and the US archives for Georgia. At the same visit, the National Library was handed over to Boston archive of Zaldastanishvili and the New York Archives of Grigol Diasamidze. Giorgi Kekelidze's poetry evening was held in the Library of Congress also in 2012. • Illustration — Giorgi Kekelidze at the National Library Since 2013 he is a TV host of the Maestro morning program and video-blog. With his initiative, the National Library opened a children's room, emigration hall, national digital photo gallery, public library for literacy and literacy. In the same year, the National Library was given a building in Kutaisi, where it was decided to create a home for foreign scholars. In 2014 he published a publication in the Liberal magazine of Libraries. In 2014, with his initiative, the library and the first Mobile Company in Georgia, Geocell begin to seek and digest family-family photos throughout Georgia. In 2015 the National Library joined the number of developed libraries in the world and raised the American integrated library program Sierra. In 2015, he became a presenter on TV "Dila Books" - Rustavi 2. In 2017, with the initiative of Kekelidze, the biggest Book Museum in Georgia was founded. The museum renovation and equipment according to the contemporary standards is supported by the Georgian Industrial Group and David Bezhuashvili Foundation. Since 2017, Kekelidze has been a full professor in the Georgian Language and Literature. He teaches at the European University Tbilisi and for the Sunday classes at the European School Tbilisi.
Creative life
Creative life
• Illustration — #ekvilibrium In 2008, Giorgi Kekelidze published his first collection of poems called “Odebi”. In addition to poems, there are marginal notes by several famous critics about the collection and it is decorated (designed) by David Meskhi's photos. In 2010 some of his poems for children were published by the same publishing company in the collection of children poetry. In 2011, the publishing house “Siesta” published Kekelidze's poem “Korani” (as a part of a series called “Book on a Plate» (Tsigni Tefshze). Instead of standard publishing, books are being brought to the supermarkets, where the papers are placed and “packaged” on plastic plates, which normally are used for packaging frozen chickens, fish, vegetables, fruits or cakes. The idea of these series comes from American writer William S. Burroughs's novel “naked lunch). The idea of the title belongs to Jack Kerouac. In 2010, Kekelidze’s poems were exhibited in art-installation made by Text/Gallery, in London. In 2012, Vazha-Pshavela’s “Snake Eater” was published by Giorgi Kekelidze and Gigi Khornauli as an adapted comic-book version. At the end of the 2012, Kekelidze and Mai Lashauri's combined album called “Miniatures” was published. In 2013t a movie called “Ambiente” based on Kekelidze's works was released. In 2013, a Georgian singer Ketato Charkviani recorded an experimental duet, which was also based on his poem. In 2013, at the Frankfurt International Book Fair, there was a presentation of translation of Kekelidze's trilingual (English, German, Russian) miniatures. A video-installation by Maia Machaladze and Mai Lashauri was also presented on the same festival. In 2014, a collection of his poems called “Poetry 2008-2013” was published. (Preface by Zurab Kiknadze). In the same year, he started creating a prosaic work called “Gurian Diaries». At the same time, he was making video-sujet called “The Stories of the Repressed Gurians, a region in Georgia. “Gurian Wedding Stories” which is based on narrations of Gurulebi became a bestseller from the moment of publishing. Kekelidze translated several works of Austrian poets, world literature tales collection called “magical door”, Sergei Dorenko's “Roman 2008”. His poems are translated in English, Russian and Azeri languages. He is listed in the Azeri anthology of Georgian poets.
Identity
Identity
Giorgi Kekelidze is recorded with the occupation prose writer. Classed in the genre detective fiction. Recorded as poet, librarian, writer, essayist and lecturer.

Giorgi Kekelidze on Authors’ Reading Month 2017, Wrocław, Poland
Rafał Komorowski

საქართველოს ეროვნული ბიბლიოთეკის დირექტორი გიორგი კეკელიძე.
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1984
Giorgi Kekelidze was born on 10 April 1984.
2009
Giorgi Kekelidze received Baratashvili Award in 2009.
2009
Giorgi Kekelidze received Saba prize in 2009.
2015
Giorgi Kekelidze received Guram Rcheulishvili Award in 2015.
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Context
The circumstances in which Giorgi Kekelidze stands. Established in Library of Congress under n2010020487. Formation and teaching. Kekelidze studied at Tbilisi State University. His recorded influences include Shota Rustaveli, W. Auden, Hafez and Galaktion Tabidze.
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Awards and acknowledgements
• 2009-Georgian Literature Prize “Saba”-The best debut of the year for collected stories named “Odebi” • 2010- Award from Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of Georgia- The most successful young man in literature field. • 2010- Man of the year by the magazine “Hot Chocolate”. • 2012- Man of the year by the magazine “Hot Chocolate”. • 2013- 50 most successful graduates of Tbilisi state university. • 2013- Wins a literature award named after Mushvig. • 2014- Giorgi Kekelidze “Gurian Diaries” is acknowledged as the national bestseller of the year. • 2015- Laureate of the Tsinandali award for the collected poems “Poetry 2008-2013” • 2015- Author of the year in Georgian literature by the statistic of magazine EGO. • 2015- won the Guram Rcheulishvili's award for the “Gurian Diaries”. • 2015- Names 2015 for “Gurian Diaries” and for digital photo history (project of the year). • 2016- Georgian public broadcaster's award for the year's educational project “Ekvilibriumi”, which aims to renew libraries in different Georgian villages. • 2016- The man of the 2016 year (organization “Amagdari”). • 2016- an honorary freeman of Ozurgeti, hometown. • 2016- Georgian public broadcaster's yearly award for the educational project electronic library. • 2016- “Gurian Diaries” book 2, the bestseller of the year in Georgia.
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