
Review | Adibas — a Georgian war novel without the war
Zaza Burchuladze’s war novel is not an easy book to love — but in 2026, it is an uncomfortably easy book to recognise.

Zaza Burchuladze’s war novel is not an easy book to love — but in 2026, it is an uncomfortably easy book to recognise.

While promising a story of self-discovery amidst Georgia’s political turmoil, this novel instead makes Georgia feel more like a convenient backdrop.

Susanna Harutyunyan’s 2015 novel eloquently captures the traumas remaining amongst survivors of the Armenian Genocide.

Lasha Bugadze’s play The Navigator won an award at the 2011 International BBC Playwriting Competition, where it premiered.

Nana Ekvitimishvili’s debut novel is a short, intense work that confronts society’s silence and ethical blind spots.

Karine Khodikyan’s uncanny and inscrutable short stories focus on lust, love, and death, and all the dysfunction that lies between.
A 2019 documentary failed to find anyone under the age of 30 who knew Tsova–Tush.