Bacho Kvirtia
Bacho Kvirtia (b. 1974) is a writer, playwright and screenwriter,
who graduated from Tamaz Chiladze’s Studio at the Rustaveli Film and Theatre
University in 1996. His prose has been published in various Georgian
periodicals. In 2011-2012 he participated in the Royal Court Theatre two-year
project New Writing, organised by the British Council Tbilisi and the
Tumanishvili Foundation. His prose collections include: Before the
Train Comes In (2007), The Call of the Sleeping Cyclops (2011)
and The Tasmanian Tiger (2013). Kvirtia is the recipient of
many literary awards, including the Pen Marathon award; the Tsero (Heron) award
(2007); the SABA prize for the Best Prose Debut (for the collection Before
the Train Comes In, 2008); Guram Rcheulishvili Prize Alaverdi for the Best
Short Story (2011). In 2011, he became a member of the Georgian PEN-Club. His
debut novel Inga’s Corduroy Jacket (Intelekti Publishing) was
published in 2017.
Anthologies featuring Bacho Kvirtia
The Book of Tbilisi
The Book of Tbilisi brings together ten short stories written about and from the Georgian capital, showcasing the work of some of the country’s most exciting and decorated contemporary writers.