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Who is traditionally credited with writing The Passion of Saint Queen Shushanik?
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The prose work Tsameba tsmidisa Shushanikisi dedoplisa, known in English as The Passion of Saint Queen Shushanik, is traditionally attributed to Iakob Tsurtaveli. This text is considered one of the earliest examples of Georgian literature, dating back to 470 CE or later.1