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The Savannah Book Festival is a literary festival held each February in Savannah, Georgia, and features authors as well as educational events.In the past, the festival has hosted best-selling authors Stephen King, James Patterson and David Baldacci, Pulitzer Prize winners Garry Wills, Geraldine Brooks and Isabel Wilkerson, National Book Award winner Ben Fountain, and Nobel Prize laureate Al Gore.
The culture of Georgia has evolved over the country's long history, providing it with a unique national identity and a strong literary tradition based on the Georgian language and alphabet. This strong sense of national identity has helped to preserve Georgian distinctiveness despite repeated periods of foreign occupation.
Books related to Georgia's history and culture (Fulltext; mostly 19th-early 20th c.) Scott Thompson (ed.). "Georgia Authors". Gecko's Georgia. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. "Topics: Media: Magazines and Journals", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council "Georgia: Arts and Entertainment: Literature". DMOZ. AOL.
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A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and ...
Lali Kiknavelidze (born 1969), USSR/Georgia, screenwriter and film director; David Kldiashvili (1862–1931), Russian E/Georgia, fiction writer and dramatist; Sergo Kldiashvili (1893–1886), Russian E, fiction writer and dramatist; Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili (born 1968), USSR/Georgia, novelist and literary journalist
Jemal Karchkhadze was born in 1936 in the village of Ukhuti in Vani in western Georgia. He graduated in 1960 with a degree in Georgian language and literature at Tbilisi State University. His short story Igi (იგი) was published in 1977.
After Georgia's declaration of independence on 9 April 1991, the government set on 26 May 1991 Georgia's first presidential election, which was won by Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Georgia met 26 May of the next year with the new government led by Eduard Shevardnadze ; Gamsakhurdia had been ousted in a military coup earlier that year.