Focus Countries

Focus Country status is designed to provide the Tbilisi International Book Festival with special, rich, and distinctive cultural content, starting or strengthening business relations between the book industries of the host and focus country. Since 2017, dozens of translations have been initiated during the fairs, also distinctive partnerships have been established between Georgian and focus country publishers. Turkey was going to be the Focus Country for the 23rd Tbilisi International Book Festival, however, due to the pandemic, the organizers and the FC team have decided to postpone the program. Thus, Turkey was presented as a country of focus at the 24th Tbilisi International Book Festival. In 2023, the focus country will be Poland.