This is a list of women writers who were born in

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 ...

or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

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Rreze Abdullahu Rreze Abdullahu Ferizaj, Kosovo is a Kosovo Albanian writer. She is best known for ''Nuk du luftë'' (I don't want war), a wartime diary she kept as a child during the 1999 Kosovo conflict. The diary is written in her native Gheg Gheg (als ...

(born 1989), Kosovo war diarist *

Mimoza Ahmeti Mimoza Ahmeti (born 12 June 1963) from Kruja is an Albanian woman poet. Works After two volumes of verse in the late eighties, it was the 53 poems in the collection Delirium, Tirana 1994 (Delirium), which caught the public's attention. Her mo ...

(born 1963), poet, short story writer, essayist *

Valdete Antoni Valdete Antoni (born 13 September 1953) is one of the best known Albanian contemporary poets. Lyricism, intimacy, sensitivity, thinking In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to conscious cognitive processes that ca ...

(born 1953), poet * Lindita Arapi (born 1972), poet, novelist, journalist, works published in German

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* Maria Antonia Braile, poet *

Flora Brovina Flora Brovina (born 30 September 1949) is a Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women's rights activist. She was born in the town of Srbica in the Drenica Valley of Kosovo, and was raised in Prishtina, where she went to school and began study ...

(born 1949), Kosovar-Albanian poet, journalist, women's rights activist *

Klara Buda Klara Buda is a French Albanian journalist and writer. She is the former head of the Albanian Department of Radio France Internationale (RFI), which she left in 2010. Buda has also worked for UNESCO and the BBC. She is of French nationality and ...

(born 1964), Albanian-American journalist, radio and television presenter

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* Selfixhe Ciu (1918–2003), novelist *

Diana Culi Diana most commonly refers to: * Diana (name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Diana (mythology), ancient Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals; later associated with the Moon * Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) ...

(born 1951), novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, politician

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Elvira Dones Elvira Dones (born 1960) is an Albanian novelist, screenwriter, and documentary film producer. Born in the coastal city of Durrës Dones graduated from the State University of Tirana. In 1988 she was employed by Albanian State Television and i ...

(born 1960), screenwriter, journalist, documentary film producer, now living in the United States * Ledia Dushi (born 1978), poet writing in

Gheg Albanian Gheg (also spelled Geg; Gheg Albanian: ''gegnishtja'', Standard sq, gegërishtja) is one of the two major variety (linguistics), varieties of Albanian language, Albanian, the other being Tosk Albanian, Tosk. The geographic dividing line betwee ...

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* Fabiola Laco Egro (born 1963), nonfiction writer and human rights activist

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* Julia Gjika (born 1949), poet, now living in the United States

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* Anilda Ibrahimi (born 1972), novelist, now living in Italy

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Helena Kadare Helena "Elena" Kadare (; born 21 September 1943) is an Albanian screenwriter, translator and author of short stories and novels. One of the latter, 1970's ''Një lindje e vështirë'', is the first novel by a woman to have been published in Alba ...

(born 1943), short story writer, novelist, now living in Paris *

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, Pe ...

(1910–1963), writer and translator *

Musine Kokalari Musine Kokalari (10 February 1917 – 14 August 1983) was an Albanian prose writer and politician in Albania's pre-communist period. She was the founder of the Social-Democratic Party of Albania in 1943. Kokalari was the first published female wri ...

(1917–1983), short story writer, first published woman writer in Albania *

Mirela Kumbaro Mirela Kumbaro Furxhi (born 4 March 1966 in Tirana, Albania), is an Albanian politician who is serving as the Minister of Tourism and Environment since 18 September 2021. Previously she has served as the Minister of Culture of Albania. She has ...

(born 1966), translator and publisher *

Irma Kurti Irma Kurti (born March 20, 1966, in Tirana) is a well-known Albanian poet, writer, lyricist, journalist and translator. She is a naturalized Italian citizen. Life She graduated from the English Department of the University of Tirana in 1988, a ...

(born 1966), poet, novel and short story writer, journalist, now living in Italy

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* Natasha Lako (born 1948), poet, novelist *

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 weekl ...

(born 1968), poet, magazine editor, some poetry translated into English *

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 ...

(born 1985), Albanian-American poet, novelist, children's writer, translator, actress, humanitarian

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* Kristina Gentile Mandala (1856–1919), Albanian poet and folklorist in Sicily *

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 a ...

(1947–1995), writer and journalist

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* Iliriana Sulkuqi (born 1951), Albanian-American poet, journalist

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* Ornela Vorpsi (born 1968), novelist, photographer

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* Anila Wilms, novelist, now living in Germany

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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 e ...

(born 1979), nonfiction writer, now living in England

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The Situation of Women Writers in Albania by Diana Çuli
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Writers A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays ...

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