Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili
{{short description|Georgian writer and literary journalist (born 1968)}}
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| birth_date = February 26, 1968
| birth_place = Tbilisi, Georgia
| occupation = Novelist, short story writer, journalist, translator
| movement = Postmodernism
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Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili ({{lang-ka|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.{{Cite web |url=http://gratzfeld.ch/pages/en/authors/anakordsaia.php?lang=EN |title=Rachel Gratzfeld, Literaturvermittlung :: Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili |access-date=February 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205014125/http://gratzfeld.ch/pages/en/authors/anakordsaia.php?lang=EN |archive-date=February 5, 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Biography
Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili was born in 1968 and lives in Tbilisi. She is a writer, translator and literary journalist.{{cite web |url=http://sulakauri.ge/authors/single/168/ |title=ანა კორძაია–სამადაშვილი / ავტორები / ბაკურ სულაკაურის გამომცემლობა |website=sulakauri.ge |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712174851/http://sulakauri.ge/authors/single/168 |archive-date=2011-07-12}}{{cite web | url=http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/en/00001349/ | title=Ანა კორძაია–სამადაშვილი (1968) }} She has won many Georgian literary prizes including the Saba Prize,http://cbw.ge/georgia/saba-2015/ the IliaUni Literary Prize{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ObQnWj4Bo | title=- YouTube | website=YouTube }} and the Goethe Institute Award.
Some of her works have been translated into English (Me, Margarita: Stories – Dalkey Archive Press {{ISBN|156478875X}}),{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22342826-me-margarita?ac=1&from_search=1 | title=Me, Margarita: Stories }} German (Ich, Margarita – Verlag Hans Schiler {{ISBN|389930408X}}{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28932272-ich-margarita | title=Ich, Margarita }}) 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,{{Cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Ana-Kordzaia-Samadashvili/e/B00LIWY0TG |title=Archived copy |website=Amazon |access-date=August 29, 2017 |archive-date=September 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923015017/https://www.amazon.com/Ana-Kordzaia-Samadashvili/e/B00LIWY0TG |url-status=dead }} 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
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Category:21st-century women writers from Georgia (country)
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