Beka Kurkhuli
# Beka Kurkhuli

Beka Kurkhuli (ბექა ქურხული) - (born 6 October 1974) 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 (in the workshop of Tamaz Chiladze).

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" (Morning newspaper), "Chveni Mtserloba" (Our literature), "Tsignebi" (Books), newspaper "24 Saati" (24 hours), "Parnassi" (Parnas), "Literaturuli Palitra" (Literary palette), "Literaturuli Gazeti" (Literary newspaper), "Literature - Tskheli Shokoladi", "Apra".

From 1999 to 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."

From 2011 to 2013, he collaborated with Media House Dekom — magazines Tskheli Shokoladi and Liberali.

2013 was on a business trip to Afghanistan as reporter.

From May 10 to June 12, 2022, he was sent as a war reporter trip on behalf of Mediacom "Publica", in the Russia-Ukraine war – (Lviv, Kyiv, Irpen, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia).

