Giorgi Kekelidze (born 1984 in Ozurgeti) is a poet, prose writer, essayist and the founder of the first Georgian digital library lib.ge. Since 2012, Giorgi Kekelidze has been the General Director of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. He gives lectures on classical literature at the Free University of Tbilisi. He received the SABA Literary Award for his debut poetry collection The Odes. He was named “person of the year” twice by a survey in the journal 'Hot Chocolate' in 2010 and 2012. The year 2014 was especially successful for the author after his documentary prose Gurian Diaries instantly became the number 1 best-selling book of the year. His poems are translated into English, German, Russian and Azerbaijani.