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Albanian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Albania or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A *Rreze Abdullahu (born 1989), Kosovo war diarist *Mimoza Ahmeti (born 1963), poet, short story writer, essayist *Valdete Antoni (born 1953), poet * Lindita Arapi (born 1972), poet, novelist, journalist, works published in German B * Maria Antonia Braile, poet *Flora Brovina (born 1949), Kosovar-Albanian poet, journalist, women's rights activist *Klara Buda (born 1964), Albanian-American journalist, radio and television presenter C * Selfixhe Ciu (1918–2003), novelist *Diana Culi (born 1951), novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, politician D *Elvira Dones (born 1960), screenwriter, journalist, documentary film producer, now living in the United States * Ledia Dushi (born 1978), poet writing in Gheg Albanian E * Fabiola Laco Egro (born 1963), nonfiction writer and human rights activist G * Julia Gjika (born 1949), poet, now living in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south. Tirana is its capital and largest city, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër. Albania displays varied climatic, geological, hydrological, and morphological conditions, defined in an area of . It possesses significant diversity with the landscape ranging from the snow-capped mountains in the Albanian Alps as well as the Korab, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains to the hot and sunny coasts of the Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea along the Mediterranean Sea. Albania has been inhabited by different civilisations over time, such as the Illyrians, Thracians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, and Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jolanda Kodra
Jolanda Kodra (1910–1963) was an Italian-Albanian writer and translator, one of the first woman writers in the Albanian language, as well as a translator into the Italian language of the works of Albanian writers, such as Ndre Mjeda, Migjeni, Petro Marko, and Sterjo Spasse. Life Jolanda Kodra was born an Italian, Iolanda Guazzoni, in 1910, in Rome, Italy, and was a niece of Enrico Guazzoni, an Italian screenwriter and film director. She was pursuing studies in a classical lyceum, when she met with Malo Kodra, originally from Gjirokastër, who was a student in Rome. A fitness teacher, he brought her to Albania in 1931. She soon learned Albanian and started not only to communicate well, but also to publish poetry in Albanian as well as literary criticism articles in well known magazines ''Hylli i Dritës'', Përpjekja shqiptare, Fryma, Njeriu and '' Tomori'' on Naim Frashëri, Gjergj Fishta, Migjeni, and Ndre Mjeda. Kodra worked particularly on Migjeni and Mjeda, which she later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Albanian Writers
This is a list of Albanian writers. A * Rreze Abdullahu (born 1990) * Dritëro Agolli (1931–2017) * Mimoza Ahmeti (born 1963) * Ylljet Aliçka (born 1951) * Gëzim Alpion (born 1962) * Valdete Antoni (born 1953) * Fatos Arapi (1930–2018) * Lindita Arapi (born 1972) * Pjetër Arbnori (1935–2006) * Asdreni (1872–1947) B * Frang Bardhi (1606–1643) * Marin Barleti (15th century) * Eqrem Basha (born 1948) * Mario Bellizzi (born 1957) * Nafiz Bezhani (1928–2004) * Ben Blushi (born 1969) * Pjetër Bogdani (1630–1689) * Flora Brovina (born 1949) * Maria Antonia Braile (20th century) * Dionis Bubani (1926–2006) * Gjergj Bubani (1899–1954) * Klara Buda (21st century) * Pjetër Budi (1566–1622) * Uran Butka (born 1938) * Gjon Buzuku (16th century) C * Martin Camaj (1925–1992) * Nicola Chetta (1741–1803) * Selfixhe Ciu (1918–2003) * Constantine of Berat (18th century) Ç * Nelson Çabej (born 1939) * Aleks Çaçi (1916–1989) * Andon Zako Çaj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi (born 8 September 1979) is an Albanian author and academic. She is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. She is a member of the jury of the Deutscher Memorial Prize. Personal life Ypi was born in Tirana, the eldest child of Xhaferr Ypi and Vjollca Veli who were relatively regular citizens under communist rule, but who later became involved in Albanian democratic politics in Ypi's late childhood prior to the Albanian civil war in 1997. She grew up in both communist and post-communist Albania, the experience of this transition being the main topic of her book 'Free: Coming of Age at the End of History' (2021). Though her family were compelled to be atheist under communist rule, her family was historically Muslim. Ypi herself says she is now agnostic. One of her paternal great-grandfathers, Xhafer Ypi, was briefly Prime Minister of Albania in the 1920s, and also very briefly headed the Albanian government following the Italian occupation. Educati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anila Wilms
Anila Wilms is an Albanian writer living in Germany. Wilms was born in Tirana and grew up in the Albanian port of Durrës. On the maternal side, she comes from a family of rich and politically influential beys who were expropriated and disempowered after 1945 as enemies of the communist regime. From 1989 to 1993 she studied history and philology at the University of Tirana. As a DAAD scholarship holder, she came to Berlin in 1994, and has been living there ever since as a writer and publicist. In August 2012, she published her first novel in German ''Das albanische Öl oder Mord auf der Straße des Nordens'' (''The Albanian Oil or Murder on the Road of the North'') in Berlin, based on historical research. The novel is set in the 1920s and is described as "an exotic, burlesque episode from the history of the young Albanian nation in the form of a political thriller". She first wrote the book in Albanian and published it in Tirana in 2007. In 2013 she was awarded the Adelbert von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornela Vorpsi
Ornela Vorpsi (born 3 August 1968, Tirana), is an Albanian writer and photographer from the Vorpsi family in Tirana. Ornela studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, and has been living and working in Paris since 1997. In 2012 she was named one of the 35 best writers of Europe in Best European Fiction by Aleksander Hemon and Zadie Smith Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor .... Novels * 2001 – ''Nothing Obvious'' * 2003 – ''The Country Where One Never Dies'' * 2006 – ''Pink Glass'' * 2007 – ''The hand that does not bite'' * 2010 – ''Drink Cocoa van Houten!'' * 2012 – ''Fuorimondo'' * 2015 – ''Travel Around the Mother'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Vorpsi, Ornela 1968 births People from Tirana Albanian women writers 21st-century Albanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iliriana Sulkuqi
Iliriana Sulkuqi (born 1951) is an Albanian poet and journalist living in the United States. She was born in Elbasan and studied at the Skanderbeg Military University. After completing her education, she served as an officer in the academy and as a journalist for the military press until 1995, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. She later worked for ''Drita'', a newspaper published by the Albanian Writers Union. Sulkuqi moved to New York City in 2004. She manages the publication of the literary magazine ''Pelegrin'' (Pilgrim). She began to write while still young. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and been translated into English, Italian, Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian and Macedonian. She helped initiate and contributed to an anthology of writing by Albanian exiles entitled ''Perëndim i malluar'' (Waiting for the sunset). She is one of a number of Albanian poets who have written haiku in Albanian. Sulkuqi is a member of the International Federation of Journalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludmilla Pajo
Ludmilla Pajo (December 21, 1947 – August 25, 1995) was a Moscow-born Albanian writer and journalist. Life Ludmilla Pajo was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. Her parents (Ramiz Xhabija and Adile Xhabija) were pursuing their studies in Moscow at that time. Her father Ramiz was one of the most important engineers known in Albania and her mother Adile was an educator and women's rights activist. They returned to Albania when Ludmilla was 6 years old. She lived in Kuçovë until the age of 18 when she moved to Tirana to pursue her college degree in journalism. As a young journalist she worked for the most important newspaper at the time in Albania, '' Zëri i Popullit''. Later she worked for the ''Ylli'' magazine until 1991. She worked for the Ministry of Defence from 1991 to 1995 She died at the age of 47 and was survived by her husband and two children. Pajo was also a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Order The Ministry of Citizen Protection ( el, Υπουργείο ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Gentile Mandala
Kristina Gentile Mandala (1856–1919) was an Arbëresh writer from Italy. An early documenter of Arbëreshë fairy tales, she is considered one of the first Albanian women writers. She was born in 1856 in Piana degli Albanesi, a village in Sicily. Her family was Arbëreshë, an Albanian ethno-linguistic group in Italy. She studied at the Collegio di Maria in Piana degli Albanesi. Mandala is considered a pioneer among Albanian literary women alongside Dora D'Istrias. She was also among the first writers to compile Arbëreshë fairy tales. In addition, she produced two books of poetry: ''Pugare'' (1887) and ''Fatmeni'' (1887). She wrote for various periodicals, notably the magazine ''Fiamuri Arbërit'' and its successor '' Arbri i Ri''. Her work was influenced by the Albanian writers Girolamo de Rada and Demetrio Camarda. She was supported in her work by her younger cousin, the poet Giuseppe Schirò, whom she supported in turn in the early days of his literary career. Mandala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masiela Lusha
Masiela Lusha (; born October 23, 1985) is an Albanian-born American actress and author. She gained recognition for playing Carmen Lopez on the globally syndicated ABC sitcom ''George Lopez'', a role that earned her two consecutive Young Artist Awards for Leading Young Actress in a Comedy or Drama. After transitioning into film, she starred in Sony Pictures’ '' Blood: The Last Vampire''. Lusha also starred alongside David Hasselhoff and Ian Ziering in SyFy's television movie '' Sharknado: The 4th Awakens''. Lusha made her acting debut in ''Summoning'' in 2001. That same year, she made her television debut in the Disney Channel series, ''Lizzie McGuire''. Lusha appeared as a main cast member in ''Clifford's Puppy Days'' (2003-2005) for PBS, and also appeared in ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'', and ''Anger Management''. Lusha starred in movies comprising a variety of genres, including ''Cherry Bomb'' (2004), ''My Father's Eulogy'' (2007), ''Muertas'' (2007), ''Time of the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luljeta Lleshanaku
Luljeta Lleshanaku (born 1968, in Elbasan, Albania) is an Albanian poet who is the recipient of the 2009 Crystal Vilenica award for European poets. She was educated in literature at the University of Tirana and was editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine '' Zëri i rinisë'' (''The Voice of Youth''). She then worked for the literary newspaper '' Drita'' (''Light''). In 1996, she received the best book of the year award from the Eurorilindja Publishing House. In 1999, she took part in the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa. She is the author of four poetry collections, one volume of which has been translated into English: ''Fresco'', available from New Directions. The writer, critic and editor Peter Constantine, in his introduction to ''Fresco'', sums up her style in this way: Luljeta Lleshanaku is a pioneer of Albanian poetry. She speaks with a completely original voice, her imagery and language always unexpected and innovative. Her poetry has little conn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Lako
Natasha Lako (born 13 May 1948) is an Albanian poet and novelist. She belongs to the country's first generation of women writers. Lako studied political science at Tirana University, specializing in journalism. She has also worked at the New Albania Film Studios in Tirana. Together with Diana Çuli and Helena Kadare, she was one of the few women writers during the Albanian communist regime. From 1991 to 1993, she was elected as a member of the Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to: *Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to: Active parties Africa *Botswana Democratic Party *Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea *Gabonese Democratic Party *Demo ... in the coalition government. In 1997, she became the first director of the Albanian Film Archives, working there for a number of years. Lako, who has also worked as a screenwriter, is married to the Albanian actor and film director Mevlan Shanaj. They have two children, Hera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
