Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili

Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili
Born	February 26, 1968 Tbilisi, Georgia
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, journalist, translator
Literary movement	Postmodernism

Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili (Georgian: ანა კორძაია-სამადაშვილი) (born February 26, 1968) is a Georgian writer and literary journalist who authored some of the best-selling prose of post-Soviet Georgian literature.^[1]

Biography

Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili was born in 1968 and lives in Tbilisi. She is a writer, translator and literary journalist.^[2][3] She has won many Georgian literary prizes including the Saba Prize,^[4] the IliaUni Literary Prize^[5] and the Goethe Institute Award.

Some of her works have been translated into English (Me, Margarita: Stories – Dalkey Archive Press ISBN 156478875X),^[6] German (Ich, Margarita – Verlag Hans Schiler ISBN 389930408X^[7]) and Swedish.

Selected works

• Who Killed Chaika?, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2013
• Marieta’s Way, Palitra L Publishing, 2012
• Children of Nightfall, Bakur Sulaakuri Publishing, 2011
• Me, Margarita, Bakur Sulaakuri Publishing,^[8] 2005, 2015 ISBN 978-1564788757
• Berikaoba, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, 2003

Literary prizes and awards

• IliaUni Literary prize 2013 in the category "Best Novel" for Who Killed Chaika?
• Literary Award SABA 2003 in the category "Best Debut" for Berikaoba
• Goethe Institute Prize 1999 in the category "Best Translation" for her translation of Die Liebhaberinnen by Elfriede Jelinek

References

1. "Rachel Gratzfeld, Literaturvermittlung :: Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili". Archived from the original on February 5, 2016. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
2. "ანა კორძაია–სამადაშვილი / ავტორები / ბაკურ სულაკაურის გამომცემლობა". sulakauri.ge. Archived from the original on July 12, 2011.
3. "Ანა კორძაია–სამადაშვილი (1968)".
4. http://cbw.ge/georgia/saba-2015/
5. "- YouTube". YouTube.
6. "Me, Margarita: Stories".
7. "Ich, Margarita".
8. "Archived copy". Amazon. Archived from the original on September 23, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2017.