Was Khavtasi a real person? In _The Literature Express_ , the narrator was asked by the Ministry of Culture to go on the Literature Express only after Khavtasi, a poet who is described as "senile", refused to go. Is Khavtasi a real poet (or even based on a real person)? Also, is this likely a first name or a surname?

The Literature Express was a novel by Lasha Bugadze, and not a true story.

A couple of links about the above:

* The Literature Express (Wikipedia),
* The Literature Express. Author: Lasha Bugadze, DUBLIN Literary Award, Z014.
* The Literature Express /by Lasha Bugadze/, Book Platform (no date).



And Khavtasi seems to be a surname. Apart from the page Khavtasia Surname on Forbears.io, if we search on LinkedIn for Khavtasi, all the profiles with this show it as a surname.