Beka Kurkhuli


Beka Kurkhuli - is a modern Georgian writer and military reporter.

Biography

Beka Kurkhuli was born on October 6, 1974 in Tbilisi. In 1991, he graduated from the first experimental school in Tbilisi. In 1991-1996 he studied at the Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi Theater and Cinema Institute, at the Faculty of Dramatic Art.
The first stories were published in 1991 in the newspaper "Mamuli". After that, his stories were systematically printed in Georgian literary magazines and newspapers: “Alternative”, “Arily”, “Dilis Gazeti”, “Chveni Mtserloba”, “Tsignebi”, newspaper "24 Saati", "Parnassi", "Literaturuli Palitra", "Literaturuli Gazeti", "Literature - Tskheli Shokoladi", "Apra".
In 1999-2004 he worked as a military reporter in hot spots in Georgia and the Caucasus. He made reports from Abkhazia, North Ossetia, Tskhinvali, Ingushetia, the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia.
In 2006 he defended his thesis on the theme: “Hikes and raids in the mountains of the Eastern Caucasus.”
In 2011-2013 he collaborated with Media House Dekom - magazines Tskheli Shokoladi and Liberali.
In 2013 was on a business trip to Afghanistan as reporter.

Literary Prizes

The works of Beka Kurkhuli are translated into English, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Avar, Ossetian and Russian langueges.
The prose collection “The City in the Snow” was translated into Italian and published by “Stilo editrice” in 2018.