Aka Morchiladze

Who is Aka Morchiladze?

Aka Morchiladze is the pen name of Giorgi Akhvlediani, a Georgian writer and literary historian who authored some of the best-selling prose of post-Soviet Georgian literature. Morchiladze’s work shows Georgian literature's reorientation in the early 21st century toward Western influences.

Born in Tbilisi, Morchiladze graduated in 1988 from the Department of History, Tbilisi State University, where he has since taught. In the early 1990s, he worked as a journalist for yellow papers and Rezonansi Daily. Now he is a freelance author and publishes essays and columns in numerous Georgian magazines and newspapers.