Zaal Samadashvili
{{Short description|Georgian writer (1953–2024)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2014}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Zaal Samadashvili
| image =
| caption = Samadashvili in 2010
| pseudonym = Zaliko (Samadašvili, Zaal)
| birth_name = Zaal Samadashvili
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1953|10|3}}
| birth_place = Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2024|11|1|1953|10|3}}
| death_place =
| occupation = Short-story writer, screenwriter, translator
| genre = Epic, drama
| movement = Modernism
| notableworks = Sandro Kandelaki's Boot (2006)
| website = {{URL|armuri.4forum.biz/t147-topic}}
| spouse = Nana Iashvili
| children = George Samadashvili
| signature =
}}
Zaal Samadashvili ({{lang-ka|ზაალ სამადაშვილი}}; 3 October 1953 – 1 November 2024) was a Georgian writer.
Life and career
Zaal Samadashvili graduated from Tbilisi State University, where he studied mathematics.
He said: 'I wish each of us was not only proud of living in Tbilisi but I wish all of us had a desire and an opportunity to do as much as possible for the Capital. So that every single person could awake and deepen the responsibility towards the house, the street and the square where they live at present, where his ancestors had lived and where his descendants will live in future.'
Author of several full-length film scripts, he published five collected stories. He was the chairman of the Tbilisi City Assembly.
Samadashvili initiated the Gala literary prize, which is awarded under the aegis of the Tbilisi City Assembly.
Samadashvili died on 1 November 2024, at the age of 71.{{cite news |title=ზაალ სამადაშვილი გარდაიცვალა |url=https://www.interpressnews.ge/ka/article/818941-zaal-samadashvili-gardaicvala/ |access-date=2 November 2024 |publisher=IPN |date=1 November 2024}}
=Positions=
- 1977 Hydro-Electric Research Institute Laboratory Assistant
- 1978–1980 Geological Expedition Caucasus Mineral Raw Materials Institute-Engineer
- Technical University of Georgia, Department of Automation and Telemechanics junior member of research staff
- 1983–1989 Film studio "Georgian Film's Creative Union of Writers Probationer
- 1989–1994 Newspaper "Mamuli" Deputy Editor. Literary magazine "XX Saukune – Editor. Georgian Technical University Humanitarian Faculty lecturer
- 2005–2007 Tbilisi Public School No. 53 – Principal
- 2006 Tbilisi City Assembly – Member
- 2008 to date Tbilisi City Assembly – Chairman{{cite web|url=http://www.sakrebulo.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=3|title=ქალაქ თბილისის საკრებულო - მთავარი|website=www.sakrebulo.ge|access-date=13 March 2018}}
Works
=Books=
- As hoarse song on the guitar (1994) – {{ISBN|99928-39-04-X}}
- As an old Italian films (1999) – {{ISBN|99928-987-9-8}}
- The fire in smoked glass (2001) – {{ISBN|99928-39-26-0}}
- Gypsies (2003) – {{ISBN|99928-987-9-8}}
- Plekhanov News{{Citation
|publisher = Bakur Sulakauris gamomcʻemloba
|isbn = 99940-30-23-X
|ol = 23395884M
|location = Tʻbilisi
|title = Plexanovuri ambebi
|author = Zaal Samadašvili
|date = 2004
|oclc = 67385235
|id = 999403023X
}} (2004) – {{ISBN|99940-30-23-X}}
- How to love one another (2004) – {{ISBN|99940-817-2-1}}
- Sandro Kandelaki's Boot (2006) – {{ISBN|99940-30-82-5}}
- Stories for Boys (2010) - {{ISBN|978-9941151286}}
=Film=
- Temo,{{cite web|url=http://www.geocinema.ge/en/index.php?filmi=732|title=Temo, Georgian National Filmography|first=Aliko|last=Askilashvili|website=www.geocinema.ge|access-date=13 March 2018}} 'Georgian television films', director Levan Zakareishvili,{{cite web|url=http://www.geocinema.ge/en/rejisor.php?kod5=141|title=Levan Zaqareishvili, Georgian National Filmography|first=Aliko|last=Askilashvili|website=www.geocinema.ge|access-date=13 March 2018}} 1986
References
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External links
- [http://www.sakrebulo.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=41 Zaal Samadashvili]
- [http://viaf.org/viaf/16571508/#Samadas%CC%8Cvili,_Zaal Samadašvili, Zaal]
- [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n2001-52345 Zaal Samadašvili]
- [http://www.book.gov.ge/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144%3Asamadashvili-zaal&catid=78%3Aauthors&Itemid=85&lang=en Samadashvili Zaal]
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Category:Recipients of the Presidential Order of Excellence
Category:Screenwriters from Georgia (country)