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Georgia Protests

Words Under Siege: Paata Shamugia on the Role of the Poet in a Repressive State

Eliza DauntMay 9, 2025

Paata Shamugia is one of Georgia’s most acclaimed contemporary poets and literary voices. Born in Abkhazia in 1983, he has received the SABA Georgian National Literature Prize twice and served as president of PEN International Georgia from 2018 to 2022….

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Georgia’s Last Stand: Poets, Protesters, and the Fight Against Russian Rule

Eliza DauntMarch 18, 2025March 21, 2025

On July 22, 1937, at the height of Stalin’s Great Purge, the poet Paolo Iashvili walked into the Writer’s House in Tbilisi, now a sanctuary for Georgia’s literary elite, then a courtroom of fear. The authorities had declared writers must…

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