Giorgi Akhvlediani | |
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![]() Morchiladze in 2017 | |
Born | Tbilisi, Georgia | 10 November 1966
Pen name | Aka Morchiladze |
Occupation | Novelist, |
Literary movement | Postmodernism |
Notable works | Santa Esperanza (2004) |
Aka Morchiladze ( Georgian: აკა მორჩილაძე) 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. [1]
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. Since 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. [2]
Giorgi Akhvlediani | |
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![]() Morchiladze in 2017 | |
Born | Tbilisi, Georgia | 10 November 1966
Pen name | Aka Morchiladze |
Occupation | Novelist, |
Literary movement | Postmodernism |
Notable works | Santa Esperanza (2004) |
Aka Morchiladze ( Georgian: აკა მორჩილაძე) 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. [1]
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. Since 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. [2]