Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili

Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili (; born February 26, 1968) is a Georgian writer and literary journalist who authored some of the best-selling prose of post-Soviet Georgian literature.

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

Some of her works have been translated into English (Me, Margarita: Stories – Dalkey Archive Press ), German (Ich, Margarita – Verlag Hans Schiler ) 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, 2005, 2015 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