Gentian ÇOÇOLI
Biography Poetry Gentian ÇOÇOLI Gentian Çoçoli comes from the southern Albanian town of Gjirokastra, near the Greek border. He is founder and editor of the literary periodical Aleph and currently works for the Ministry of Culture in Tirana. Çoçoli is the author of two volumes of verse: Qytetrime të përkohshme (Transitory Civilisations), Tirana 1996; and Perimetri i […]
Martin CAMAJ
Biography Poetry Martin CAMAJ Camaj (1925-1992) was born in Temali in the Dukagjin region of the northern Albanian alps. He is an émigré writer of significance both for Albanian literature and for Albanian scholarship. He received a classical education at the Jesuit Saverian college in Shkodër and studied at the University of Belgrade. From […]
Lindita ARAPI
Biography Poetry Prose Lindita ARAPI Lindita Arapi was born in Lushnja in 1972. She studied at the University of Tirana in 1994 and began working as a journalist and moderator for Albanian television (TVSH). In 1996 she was awarded a fellowship as a ‘writer in residence’ at the Heinrich Böll House (Düren, Germany) as […]
Ylljet ALIÇKA
Biography Prose Prose Ylljet ALIÇKA Ylljet Aliçka (b. 1951) was born in Tirana, where he studied science. Since 1997, he has been working for the Delegation of the European Community in Albania. Aliçka is the author of three volumes of short stories: Tregime, Tirana & Elbasan 1997 (Short stories); Kompromisi, Tirana & Elbasan 2000 (The Compromise); […]
Dritëro AGOLLI
Biography Poetry Prose Dritëro AGOLLI Dritëro Agolli (b. 1931) is a writer who has had a far from negligible influence on the course of contemporary literature. He was head of the Albanian Union of Writers and Artists from the purge of Fadil Paçrami and Todi Lubonja at the Fourth Plenary Session in 1973 until 1992. […]
Preç ZOGAJ
Biography Poetry Preç ZOGAJ Poet, prose writer and political figure Preç Zogaj (b. 1957) was born in Manatia in the District of Lezha. He studied language and literature at the University of Tirana and worked thereafter as a journalist and publisher. Zogaj played a significant role in the democracy movement in Albania in 1990 […]
Moikom ZEQO
Biography Poetry Moikom ZEQO Writer and archaeologist Moikom Zeqo (b. 1949) was born in the ancient port city of Durrës (Lat. Dyrrachium) and studied in the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana. He worked for the Museum of Archeology in Durrës as well as for the Classical and Mediaeval Art Division of […]
Ornela VORPSI
Biography Prose Ornela VORPSI Ornela Vorpsi was born in Tirana in 1968 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts there. In 1991 she emigrated to Milan and in 1997 moved on to Paris where she works as a photographer, painter and video artist. Vorpsi’s stunningly refreshing novel, “The Country Where No One Ever […]
Agron TUFA
Biography Poetry Agron TUFA Agron Tufa (b. 1967), was born in Suhadoll in the Dibra region of eastern Albania and studied literature at the University of Tirana. He continued his studies in Moscow in the 1990s where he graduated in translation theory, with particular concentration on the work of Joseph Brodsky. Since his return […]
Parid TEFERIÇI
Biography Poetry Parid TEFERIÇI Poet and painter Parid Teferiçi (b. 1972) was born and raised in Kavaja. From 1990 to 1994, he studied computer science at the University of Tirana and from 1994 to 1999, he studied economics at the Bocconi University of Milan, Italy. From 1999-2001, he served as head archivist at the […]