Kordzaia Samadashvili Ana
ISU Room E325 Cholokashvili 3/5 Avenue, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia
Direction:Linguistics
Position:Associate Professor
Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili was born in 1968 in Tbilisi.He studied Russian language and literature at Tbilisi State University, in Tbilisi State Institute of Foreign Languages – Chinese language and culture, in 1995 defended the thesis “Linguo-stylistic analysis of the text”.She worked in publishing house “BBT” (Sweden and Lithuania) and “Soma Press”, was an employee of the Berlin International Book Agency “Smith-Braulo and Partners” (Frankfurt, Berlin), worked as a journalist in the Newspaper “24 Hours”, Magazine “Hot Chocolate” and radio “Green Wave “Her texts published by “Bakur Sulakauri Publishing” are translated into English, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish languages.
Scientific interests / research interests
Georgian literature; Russian literature; German literature; Literary translation; Oral history.
• 2016 “Wer hat die Tschaika getoetet?” Hans Schiler Verlag, Berlin
• 2015 I bambini del crepuscolo” Edizioni Clandestine
• 2015 “Pastoral” collection of 15 best stories “, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing
• 2015 “Me, Margarita”, Dalkey Archive Press
• 2014 “go home”, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing
• 2014 “Ich, Margarita”, Hans Schiler Verlag, Berlin
• 2013 “Who killed chaika?” Bakur Sulakauri Publishing
• 2013 “long letter far gone” http://www.citybooks.eu/nl/steden/citybooks/p/detail/een-lange-brief-aan-een-verre-zus
• 2012 collection of stories “Marietta Path”, publishing house “Palitra”
• 2011 “Shushanik’s children”, novel, Bakur Sulakauri publishing house
• 2006 “Historical Memory” in the collection “15 best stories”, publisher of Bakur Sulakauri
• 2005 collection of stories “I, Margarita”, publisher of Bakur Sulakauri
• 2005 “Rainy” collection in the “15 best stories”, publisher of Bakur Sulakauri
• 2004 “Dobrobovsky” collection in the “15 Best Story”, Bakur Sulakauri Publishing
• 2003 collection of stories “Berikoba”, publisher of Bakur Sulakauri
Translations:
Joachim Massanek Die Wilden Fußballkerle, Buch 1, Buch 2
Elfride Jelinek: Die Liebhaberinnen;
Elfride Jelinek: Frau und Körper
Elfride Jelinek: Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns
Lenka Rainerowa: Traumkafe einer Pragerin
Rainald Goetz: Jeff Koons
Rainald Goetz: Rave
Dea Lohen; Das Leben auf der Praca Roosevelt
Cornelia Funke: Herr der Diebe
Erich Maria Remarque: Drei Kameraden
Ruediger Safranski: Das Boese oder Drama der Freiheit
Bertolt Brecht: Das Verhoer des Lukullus
Ingeborg Bachmann: Malina
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Literary Criticism; Introduction to Russian Studies; Russian Literature in XIX Century – I Half; Russian Literature in XX Century – I Half; Russian Literature in XX Century II Half; German-Georgian Literary Translation 2 Russian Literature in XIX Century – II Half; Bachelor’s Thesis (Literary Studies); Contemporary Texts in Georgian Literature; Creative Writing; German-Georgian Literary Translation 1 |
Twentieth Century: “Master and Margarita” (Bachelor’s Course, 1 semester); Literary criticism (undergraduate course, 1 semester); Russian literature of the 19 th century I (undergraduate course, 1 semester); 20th century Russian Literature I (Bachelor’s Course, 1 semester); Bachelor’s seminar (undergraduate course, 1 semester). |
Awards: 2015 “Best Story of the Year” 2014 “Best Story of the Year” 2014 Ilia State University Award for the best novel of the year “Who killed Toys?” 2013 “Best Story of the Year” For the 2005 Bestseller (Collection “I, Margarita”) 2002 literary prize “Saba” for the best debut of the year