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Kadare Prize
The Kadare Prize ( sq, Çmimi Kadare), established in 2015, is a literary prize awarded annually to a work by an Albanian author. It is named in honour of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Winners are awarded 10,000 euros. List of Winners Winners 2018 ; Winner * Virgjil Muçi for his novel ''Piramida e shpirtrave'' (Pyramid of Souls) ; Juria *Kim Mehmeti (chair) *Genciana Abazi *Agim Baçi *Ledia Dushi * Eni Vasili ; Shortlist *Vera Bekteshi - ''Një rrugë e gjatë pa krye'' *Virgjil Muci - ''Piramida e shpirtrave'' *Gazmend Krasniqi - ''Triologjia e Shkodrës'' *Rudina Cupi - ''Shenjat e pikësimit'' *Thanas Dino - ''Prishja ose Ndërrimi dhe ndalimi'' 2017 ; Winner * Musa Ramadani for his novel “'' The Prophet from Prague''” ; Jury *Bashkim Shehu (chair) *Agim Baçi *Ylljet Aliçka *Ledia Dushi *Mirela Oktrova ; Shortlist *Musa Ramadani - “''Profeti nga Praga''” *Mimoza Ahmeti – “''Tutori''” * Ardian Haxhaj – “''Vegim''” * Virion Graçi ... [...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] |
Virion Graçi
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1892 article describing a non-bacterial pathogen infecting tobacco plants and the discovery of the tobacco mosaic virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898,Dimmock p. 4 more than 9,000 virus species have been described in detail of the millions of types of viruses in the environment. Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth and are the most numerous type of biological entity. The study of viruses is known as virology, a subspeciality of microbiology. When infected, a host cell is often forced to rapidly produce thousands of copies of the original virus. When not inside an infected cell or in the process of infecting a cell, viruses exist in the form of independent particles, or ''virions'', consisting of (i) the genetic mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pranvera Bekteshi
Pranvera is an Albanian female given name. It is derived from the Albanian word ''pranverë'' ' spring'. Persons named Pranvera include: *Pranvera Hoxha, daughter of Enver Hoxha Enver Halil Hoxha ( , ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who was the authoritarian ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 unt ..., Albanian architect References Albanian feminine given names Feminine given names {{given-name-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arb Elo
ARB, ARb or arb may refer to: Places * Ann Arbor (Amtrak station) (Amtrak station code) * Ann Arbor Municipal Airport (IATA airport code) Brands and enterprises * ARB, Inc., predecessor of Primoris Services Corporation * American Research Bureau Computing * Arb, an interval arithmetic package related to GNU MPFR * OpenGL Architecture Review Board ** ARB assembly language, for GPU instructions Finance, economics, and business * muni arb or municipal bond arbitrage * Arbitrage betting Government * Administrative Review Board (Labor) of the US Department of Labor * Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency * Architects Registration Board, UK statutory body Language * Arb (gesture), hand signals used on financial trading floors * Modern Standard Arabic (ISO 639-3 code) Military * Administrative Review Board, for prisoners in the Guantánamo Bay detention camps * Air Rescue Boat Science, engineering, and health care * Accumulative roll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Çapi
Ada may refer to: Places Africa * Ada Foah, a town in Ghana * Ada (Ghana parliament constituency) * Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria Asia * Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Turkey Europe * Ada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a village * Ada, Croatia, a village * Ada, Serbia, a town and municipality * Ada Ciganlija or Ada, a river island artificially turned into a peninsula in Belgrade, Serbia United States * Ada, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Ada County, Idaho * Ada, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Ada Township, Michigan * Ada, Minnesota, a city * Ada Township, Dickey County, North Dakota * Ada, Ohio, a village * Ada, Oklahoma, a city * Ada, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Ada Township, Perkins County, South Dakota * Ada, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Ada, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Other * Ada River (other), various rivers * 523 Ada, an aster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Nano
Mustafa Nano (born 4 January. 1960 Shijak, Durrës) is the ambassador of the Republic of Albania to Switzerland. Having been a former member of the Albanian Democratic Party, he switched careers from politics to journalism where he started working in the ''Shekulli'' paper in 1997. In his writings he espouses a liberal-progressive worldview. Other newspapers that he has worked with are ''Korrieri'' and ''Shqip''. He is also the author of three essay books. In May 2023, Nano was nominated by the Albanian government Albania is a unitary parliamentary constitutional republic, where the President of Albania is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Albania the head of government in a multi-party system. The executive power is exercised by the Government a ... to become the ambassador to Switzerland. The nomination was confirmed in June. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Nano, Mustafa 1960 births Living people Albanian male writers 21st-century Albanian writers Albanian j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigor Banushi
Grigor is a masculine given name and a surname. Variants include Gregory, Gregor, Grigori, Grigory, and in Western Armenian as Krikor. People with the given name * Grigor III Pahlavuni (1093-1166), Armenian catholicos * Grigor Artsruni (1845-1892), Armenian journalist * Grigor Dimitrov (born 1991), Bulgarian tennis player * Grigor Gurzadyan (born 1922), Armenian astronomer * Grigor Koprov (born 1943), Macedonian musician * Grigor Marzuantsi (18th century), Armenian book printer * Grigor Meliksetyan (born 1986), Armenian footballer * Grigor Nachovich (1845-1920), Bulgarian politician * Grigor Parlichev (1830-1893), Bulgarian writer * Grigor Paron-Ter (17th century), Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem * Grigor Tatevatsi (14th century), Armenian philosopher * Grigor Taylor (born 1943), Australian actor * Grigor Topalli (born 1992), Albanian footballer * Grigor Vachkov (1932-1980), Bulgarian actor * Grigor Vitez (1911-1966), Croatian writer * Ronald Grigor Suny Ronald Grigor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bardhyl Londo
Bardhyl Londo (1948 – 18 February 2022) was an Albanian poet and writer. Life and career Born in Albania, Bardhyl graduated in Albanian language and Albanian literature at the University of Tirana. After graduation, he taught for several years in schools in the Përmet District, then started working as an editor in the literary magazine Drita (Light). He made his debut as a poet with a book of poems published in 1975. He was one of the most popular lyrical poets in Albania in the 1980s. He was the author of eight poems and several novels. In 1989, he was awarded the Migjeni writers prize. In the 1990s, he headed the Albanian Union of Writers and Artists. In 2012, Bardhyl Londo's translation from the English language of Adam Zagajewski's book of poetry, "The City Where I Would Like to Live", was published in Tirana Tirana ( , ; aln, Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills with Dajti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Mitterrand
Frédéric Mitterrand (born 21 August 1947) is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. Throughout his career, he has been an actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director. Biography Born in Paris, he is the nephew of François Mitterrand, who was the president of France from 1981 to 1995, and the son of engineer Robert Mitterrand (1915–2002) and Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, the co-founder of "La Cagoule". He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris and studied history and geography at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and political science at Sciences Po. He taught economics, history and geography at EABJM from 1968 to 1971. In 1978, he was a film critic at ''J'informe''. From 1971 to 1986, he ran several art film cinemas in Paris (Olympic Palace, Entrepôt and Olympic-Entrepôt). He also had roles in a number of film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brajan Sukaj
Brajan is a Serbian and Albanian male given name. It may refer to: *Brajan Nenezić (born 1953), Yugoslav footballer * Petar (), nicknamed Brajan, a Serbian count that built the White Church in Karan, Užice *Brajan Gruda (born 2004), German footballer See also * Brian, British name, transcribed in Serbian as "Brajan"; variants Bryan Bryan may refer to: Places United States * Bryan, Arkansas * Bryan, Kentucky * Bryan, Ohio * Bryan, Texas * Bryan, Wyoming, a ghost town in Sweetwater County in the U.S. state of Wyoming * Bryan Township (other) Facilities and structur ..., Brayan. * Brajko, Serbian name {{given name Serbian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arben Kastrati
Arben is an Albanian masculine given name that refers to the first Albanian entity during the Middle Ages: Principality of Arbanon ( sq, Principata e Arbënit). *Arben Arbëri (born 1964), Albanian football player *Arben Biba (born 1976), Kosovar Albanian actor *Arben Imami (born 1958), Albanian politician *Arben Malaj (born 1961), Albanian politician *Arben Minga (1959–2007), Albanian footballer *Arben Ristani (born 1969), head of the Central Election Commission of Albania *Arben Shehu (born 1980), Albanian football striker *Arben Xhaferi (1948–2012), Albanian politician who worked in the Republic of Macedonia See also *Arben Broci High School Arben Broci High School is a high school located in Tirana Tirana ( , ; aln, Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills with Dajti rising to the east and a ..., Tirana, Albania {{given name Albanian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
