Tompkins County Against War & Occupation

September 4, Thursday: Irakli Kakabadze, Fiction Writer, Ithaca City of Asylum Writer in Residence
4:30 pm, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

A writer and peace activist, Irakli Kakabadze has been a leading figure in the nonviolent movement for social change in Georgia for more than two decades. A member of the Civic Disobedience Committee during the Rose Revolution in 2003, he has since been harassed and detained repeatedly by authorities.
Irakli Kakabadze is one of the leading contemporary Georgian writers. He is an author of five books and scores of short stories and poems. In 1990 Kakabadze was awarded an award by “Tsiskari” magazine for his novel Allegro. He was one of the first writers in Georgia to focus on painful issues of drugs and violence. Since 1990 he has published more than 50 short stories in Georgian, Russian and English publications. His play “Candidate Jokola,” which was published in 2005, became one of the most discussed stories of love between a Georgian man and Abkhaz woman. In his country, he is well known as a writer and political activist, who has engaged in social life since the late 1980s. This event is made possible by the generosity of two anonymous donors who are alumni of Cornell University.

• An Interview with Irakli Kahabadze international cities of refuge
• Irakli Kakabadze Pen American Center
• Irakli Kakabadze From Georgia resistancegeorgia Nov. 30, 2007