Aka Mortschiladze

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Aka Mortschiladze (2017)

Aka Mortschiladze ( Georgian აკა მორჩილაძე ; born გიორგი ახვლედიანი / Giorgi Achwlediani ; born November 10, 1966 ) is a Georgian writer. He is considered one of the most widely read contemporary authors in Georgia .

Life

Mortschiladze studied history at the Tbilisi State University . After graduating in 1988, he worked at the university for several years. In the early 1990s he was a parliamentary reporter for the Tbilisi daily Resonansi , he also wrote for tabloids.

His main works are the stories or (short) novels Die Reise nach Karabach (1992), Dogs on Paliaschwili Straße (1995), Disappeared on Madatow Island (1998), Patience in August (2001), Witches of Christmas Night (2002) , Old Refugee Shop (2003) and Santa Esperanza (2004). In Georgia they always topped the bestseller lists. In 2003 alone, his books were sold 15,000 times.

The dogs on Paliaschwili Street were adapted as a play and premiered in 1999 in the Sandro Akhmeteli Theater in Tbilisi. It reflects Georgian life in the years after the reunification of 1992 and 1993.

By 2012, Mortschiladze was awarded the Saba Literature Prize five times ; By 2018 he had published twenty novels and three collections of short stories.

Mortschiladze is married and has children.

Works (selection)

  • Mogzauroba Qarabghshi 1992
    • German trip to Karabakh . Novel. Translated from Georgian by Iunona Guruli. Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-938803-87-5
  • Gadap'rena madat'ovze da ukan ( Eng . Flight over the Madatow Island and back ). T'bilisi, Sulakauri, 1998, ISBN 99928-52-09-7
  • P'aliasvilis k'uc'is ja · glebi ( Eng . Dogs of Paliaschwili street ). T'bilisi, Sulakauri, 2000, ISBN 99928-52-50-X
  • Gak'rebi Madat'ovze ( Eng . Disappeared on Madatow Island ). T'bilisi, Sulakauri, 2001, ISBN 99928-5257-7
  • Agvistos pasiansi: sant'lis suk'ze sakit'xavi bulvaruli romani (German Patience in August ). T'bilisi, Sulakauri, 2001, ISBN 99928-5256-9
  • Mamluk̕i 2009
    • dt. The projectionist . Novel. Translated from Georgian by Iunona Guruli. Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-938803-89-9
    • German Obolé. Novel. Translated from the Georgian by Natia Mikeladze-Bachsoliani. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), ISBN 978-3-96311-039-9
    • German Santa Esperanza . Novel. Translated from the Georgian by Natia Mikeladze-Bachsoliani. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), ISBN 978-3-95462-983-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait of Aka Morchiladze on weidleverlag.de, accessed on October 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Mortschiladze, Aka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Achwlediani, Giorgi (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1966