Ilir Kadia (born 4 October 1957) is a journalist from

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 ...

. He has been working for the BBC World Service since 1993.BBCAlbanian.com
www.bbc.co.uk, undated (accessed 22 January 2007) His book '' Floke te Lagur'' (Wet Hair), a collection of

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

, came as a surprise to the Albanian public in 2004. The book was praised by the literary world as well as the public - described as "the stories have by now become part of the reader's patrimony." Since then Kadia has published two other books titled ''Kontrate per Kadaver'' (Cadaver Contract), and ''Nata e pare e tradhetise'' (First Night of Treason). All the books are composed of 20 short stories on umpteen topics of Albanian life.

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