Vorea UJKO
Biography Poetry Vorea UJKO Vorea Ujko (1918-1989), pseudonym of Domenico Bellizzi, is among the most popular and respected of the Arbëresh (Italo-Albanian) poets. Ujko was a modest priest from Frascineto (Alb. Frasnita) in Calabria who taught modern literature in Firmo (Alb. Firma) where his memory has been cherished since his death in a car accident in […]
Luan STAROVA
Biography Prose Luan STAROVA Luan Starova is an Albanian writer from the Republic of Macedonia who serves as an interface between Albanian and Macedonian cultures and literatures. He was born in Pogradec in Albania on 14 August 1941 and studied at the universities of Skopje and Zagreb, where he finished a doctorate in French […]
Ali PODRIMJA
Biography Poetry Ali PODRIMJA Ali Podrimja (b. 1942) was born in Gjakova at the foot of the so-called ‘Mountains of the Damned.’ After a difficult childhood, he studied Albanian language and literature in Prishtina. Author of over a dozen volumes of cogent and assertive verse since 1961, he is recognized both in Kosova and in […]
Jeton NEZIRAJ
Biography Drama Jeton NEZIRAJ Jeton Neziraj (1977) is a playwright from Kosovo. He has written over 15 plays which have been staged and performed both in Kosovo and abroad, some of which have been translated and published in other languages. He was professor of dramaturgy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prishtina in 2007-2008 and artistic […]
Din MEHMETI
Biography Poetry Din MEHMETI Din Mehmeti (b. 1932) is among the best-known classical representatives of contemporary verse in Kosova. He was born in 1932 in the village of Gjocaj i Junikut near Gjakova and studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Belgrade. He later lectured at the teacher training college in Gjakova. Although […]
Sabri HAMITI
Biography Poetry Sabri HAMITI Born in Dumnica near Podujeva in Kosova, poet and critic Sabri Hamiti (b. 1950) studied comparative literature both in Zagreb and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, where the demigods of French structuralism brought their influence to bear on him. He finished his doctorate at the University of […]
Mirko GASHI
Biography Poetry Mirko GASHI Mirko Gashi (1939-1995), born in Kraljevo in Serbia, attended elementary school in Presheva and secondary school in Gjilan. He studied journalism in Belgrade and worked subsequently as a reporter for the newspaper Flaka e vëllazërimit (Flame of Brotherhood) in Skopje and for Radio Prishtina. He was much admired in the 1980s for […]
Basri ÇAPRIQI
Biography Poetry Basri ÇAPRIQI Basri Çapriqi (b. 1960) is a leading poet of the Albanian community in Montenegro. He was born in Ana e Malit, near Ulqin (BCS Ulcinj), on the Adriatic coast. Çapriqi studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Prishtina, graduating in 1987. He currently teaches Albanian at the Faculty […]
Shaip BEQIRI
Biography Poetry Shaip BEQIRI Shaip Beqiri was born on 25 March 1954 in Gllamnik near Podujeva in Kosova. He studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Prishtina from 1973 to 1979, and worked for several years as a teacher and editor. Since 1995 he has been living in Switzerland where he is […]
Eqrem BASHA
Biography Poetry Prose Eqrem BASHA Eqrem Basha (b. 1948) is among the most respected contemporary writers of Kosova in recent years. He was born in Dibra in the western Albanian-speaking region of what is now the Republic of Macedonia, but his life and literary production are intimately linked to Kosova and its capital Prishtina, where […]