Eka Kevanishvili

was born in Tbilisi in 1979. In 2002, she graduated from the local State University with a master’s degree in international journalism and has since worked as a radio, print, and video reporter. Since 2008, she has worked as a full-time journalist in the Tbilisi office of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, covering domestic politics, social and health issues, human rights, minority issues, to name a few. She has also worked as an investigative journalist for several leading Georgian newspapers.

Eka Kevanishvili is the author of seven books, including four volumes of poetry, one volume of short stories, and one volume of essays and interviews.

The lyrics of Eka Kevanishvili’s first poetry collection »Rumor« (2006) explore a mixture of erotic poetry and rebellion, which is why she was compared to Anne Sexton at the time. Her next collection »Don’t Stand Here« (2010) takes on social issues and war. Here, Eka Kevanishvili’s poetic style, later classified as urban poetry, was clearly formed. »Selling The House« (2013) is a collection of political poems, with strong undertones of feminism. Her poetry has been described by critics as contemporary in the best and most specific sense of the word, as it is mainly devoted to social issues, gender issues, the modern world, global and private wars.

Rumor

Diogene
Tbilisi, 2006

Don’t Stand Here

Diogene
Tbilisi, 2010

Selling the House

Saunje
Tbilisi, 2013