Aka Morchiladze

Aka Morchiladze is the pen name of Giorgi Akhvlediani (გიორგი ახვლედიანი) (born 10 November 1966), a Georgian writer and literary historian who authored some of the best-selling prose of post-Soviet Georgian literary fiction. Morchiladze's work shows reorientation of the early 21st-century Georgian literature towards the Western influences.

Biography Born in Tbilisi, Morchiladze graduated in 1988 from the Department of History, Tbilisi State University, where he later taught. In the 1990s, he worked as a sports journalist and literary columnist for Tbilisi's press, notably for the leading sports daily Sarbieli, writing under the pseudonym Gio Akhvlediani. His extensive collection of sports essays and letters published in the newspaper was later compiled into a two-volume book titled In Sarbieli ("სარბიელში"), covering his work from 1995 to 2005. 1998, Morchiladze's twenty novels and three collections of short stories have been published by the Sulakauri Publishing. Several of his works have been filmed and staged.