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poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

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Albanian language Albanian ( endonym: or ) is an Indo-European language and an independent branch of that family of languages. It is spoken by the Albanians in the Balkans and by the Albanian diaspora, which is generally concentrated in the Americas, Europ ...

17th century

Llukë Bogdani Llukë Bogdani ( it, Luca Bogdani; 16?? - 1687) was an Ottoman poet of Albanian origin. Life Born near Prizren he studied in the Catholic school of Yanova (now Janjevo), joined the Austrian forces during the Great Turkish War under the guid ...

(–1687) *

Nezim Frakulla Nezim Berati (ca. 1680-1760), alternatively known as ''Nezim Frakulla'' or ''Ibrahim Nezimi'', was the first major poet among the Bejtexhinj, popular poets in the Muslim tradition who wrote in Albanian but used Arabic script. He was born in the ...

(1680–1760) * Muçi Zade (18th Century)

18th century

Zenel Bastari Zenel Bastari or Zenel Hyka (c. 1767 – c. 1837) was an Albanian poet of the Bejtexhinj literary movement. A native of Tirana, he lived and worked from the end of 18th century until mid 19th century. Together with Hasan Zyko Kamberi and Nezim Fra ...

(18th Century) *

Constantine of Berat Constantine of Berat, known among Albanians as Kostandin Jermonak Berati or shortly Kostë Berati, was an Albanian writer and translator of the 18th century. Life and work Not much is known about him, except that he was from Berat, today's southern ...

(1745–1825) *

Haxhi Ymer Kashari Haxhi Ymer Kashari known also as Ymer Mustafa Kashari was an Albanian bejtexhi of the 18th century. Haxhi Ymer was born in Tirana in early 18th century. Back then part of the Sanjak of Scutari of the Ottoman Empire, Tirana was already flourishi ...

(18th Century) *

Hasan Zyko Kamberi Hasan Zyko Kamberi was a distinguished bejtexhi (bard) writer of Albanian literature. Overview He was born in the second half of the eighteenth century in Starje, a southern Albanian village near Kolonja at the foot of Mount Gramoz. All that ...

(18th Century) *

Etëhem Bey Mollaj Haxhi Et'hem Bey also known as Haxhi Et'hem bey Mollaj (1783–1846) was an Ottoman Albanian administrator, nobleman and bejtexhi. Et'hem Bey was the son of Molla Bey of Petrela, from one of the prominent families of the Tirana area, back th ...

(1783–1846) *

Nasibi Tahir Babai Nasibi Tahir Babai (died 1835), born Tahir Skënderasi, , death_place = Konitsa, Ottoman Empire , death_cause = , nationality = , other_names = Hyxhretiu ... References {{Authority control 18th-century Albania ...

(–1835) * Sulejman Naibi (–1771) *

Tahir Efendi Jakova Tahir Efendi Jakova (1770–1850 or 1835), also known as Tahir Efendi Boshnjaku or The Great Efendi ( sq, Efendiu i Madh), was an Albanian religious leader of the Yakova region in Kosovo, as well one of the most known Albanian bejtexhi. He li ...

(1770–1835) * Giulio Variboba (1725–1788) *

Demir Vlonjati Demir Vlonjati (c. 1780–1845) born Demir Mystehaku and also known as Demir Aga Vlonjakasi was an Albanian folk singer, composer and poet. Demir Mystehaku was born in Matogjin, southern Albania around 1780 and died there in 1845. He became a famo ...

(1780–1845)

19th century

* Asdreni (1872–1947) *

Thoma Avrami Thoma Avrami (1869–1943) was an Albanians, Albanian poet, journalist and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. During his life he published many distinguished Albanian newspapers and magazines of the era like ''Përlindja Shqiptare'', ...

(1869–1943) *

Josif Bageri Josif Jovan Bageri (15 August 186815 June 1915) was an educator, poet and Albanian nationalist figure. Biography Early life Josif Bageri was born in Nistrovo in the Upper Reka region, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, to an Albanian Orthodox fam ...

(1870–1916) * Çajupi (1866–1930) *

Qamil Çami Qamil Izet Çami (January 4, 1875 – September 26, 1933) was an Albanian rilindas, poet, and teacher. He and other rilindas from his area opened the first Albanian-language school of Filiates in 1908 . Life Qami Çami was born in Filiates, then ...

(1875–1933) * Spiro Dine (1846–1922) * Abedin Dino (1843–1906) * Prend Doçi (1846–1917) *

Gjergj Fishta Gjergj Fishta (; 23 October 187130 December 1940) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, educator, politician, rilindas, translator and writer. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century due to his epic ...

(1871–1940) *

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(19th Century) * Mid’hat Frashëri (1880–1949) *

Naim Frashëri Naim bey Frashëri, more commonly Naim Frashëri (; ; 25 May 184620 October 1900), was an Albanian historian, journalist, poet, rilindas and translator who was proclaimed as the national poet of Albania. He is regarded as the pioneer of modern ...

(1846–1900) *

Shahin Frashëri Shahin Frashëri was an Albanian bejtexhi of the 19th century. His ''Mukhtarnameh'' poem is one of the longest and earliest epics in Albanian literature. Life and work Shahin (Shahinin) Kaso Frashëri was born in Frashër, today's Përmet District ...

(19th Century) *

Loni Logori Loni Logori (1871–1929) was an Albanian-Egyptian entrepreneur, poet, and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. Life Logori was born in 1871 in Korçë, back then still part of the Vilayet of Monastir of the Ottoman Empire. Like many ...

(1871–1929) *

Ndre Mjeda Ndre Mjeda (20 November 18661 August 1937) was an Albanian philologist, poet, priest, rilindas, translator and writer of the Albanian Renaissance. He was a member of the Mjeda family. He was influenced by the Jesuit writer Anton Xanoni and t ...

(1866–1937) *

Fan Noli Theofan Stilian Noli, known as Fan Noli (6 January 1882 – 13 March 1965), was an Albanian writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, Archbishop, Metropolitan and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church and the Albanian Orthodox ...

(1882–1965) *

Bernardin Palaj Bernardin Palaj (20 October 1894 — 8 December 1947) was a Franciscan friar, folklorist and poet. Life Born as Zef Palaj in Shkodër, to Gjon and Marta Dedaj, originally from the mountains of Shllak. Bernardin Palaj went to Franciscan schools in ...

(1894–1947) * Vaso Pasha (1825–1892) *

Girolamo de Rada Girolamo de Rada ( Arbërisht: ''Jeronim de Rada''; 29 November 181428 February 1903) was an Arbëreshë folklorist, journalist, lawyer, playwright, poet, rilindas and writer. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of t ...

(1814–1903) * Francesco Antonio Santori (1819–1894) *

Giuseppe Schirò Giuseppe Schirò ( Arbërisht: Zef Skiroi; 10 August 1865 – 17 February 1927)Elsie, ''Albanian literature'',pp. 60–64/ref> was an Arbëresh neo-classical poet, linguist, publicist and folklorist from Sicily. His literary work marked the tran ...

(1865–1927) * Filip Shiroka (1859–1935) * Kristo Sulidhi (1858–1938) *

Murad Toptani Murad bej Toptani (13 July 1867 – 11 February 1918) was an Albanian poet, artist and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. Along with his relative Abdi Toptani he became one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independ ...

(1867–1918)

20th century

Dritëro Agolli Dritëro Agolli (13 October 1931 – 3 February 2017) was an Albanian poet, writer and politician. He studied in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, and wrote primarily poetry, but also short stories, essays, plays, and novels. He was head of the Le ...

(1931–2017) *

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) *

Sadri Ahmeti Sadri Ahmeti (3 March 1939 24 June 2010) was an Albanian painter and poet from Vusanje, Plavë, Gusinje of Montenegro. Career He was born in the village of Vusanje. In 1957 he emigrated to Albania. He worked as an agronomist in Berat and Kruj ...

(1939–2010) *

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) *

Fatos Arapi Fatos Arapi (July 19, 1930 – October 11, 2018) was an Albanian poet, short story writer, translator and journalist. Arapi's publications have been highly praised by his readers and his peers and have been awarded various national and internation ...

(1930–2018) *

Lindita Arapi Lindita Arapi (born 30 June 1972) is an Albanian writer and journalist. She is cited as a noteworthy example of a generation of female Albanian writers. Together with her contemporaries, Ervin Hatibi, Agron Tufa, and Rudian Zekthi, Arapi is one ...

(born 1972) *

Besim Bokshi Besim Bokshi (12 November 1930 – 16 August 2014) was an Albanian poet, linguist and philologist. He served as the president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo during 2008-2011. Career Besim Bokshi was born in Gjakova, Kingdom of Y ...

(1930–2014) *

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) * Ibrahim Dalliu (1878–1952) * Mirko Gashi (1939–1995) *

Ndoc Gjetja Ndoc Gjetja (March 9, 1944 – June 7, 2010) was an Albanian poet. He was born in Bërdicë near Shkodër in north Albania, but moved to Lezhë at a young age. His poetry collections include ''Rrezatim'' (Radiance) of 1971, followed by ''Shqip ...

(1944–2010) * Julia Gjika (born 1949) * Milto S. Gurra (1884–1972) *

Anton Harapi Anton Harapi (5 January 1888 – 20 February 1946) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, educator, lecturer, publicist, and political figure during World War II. In the first years of the communist regime in Albania, he was executed due to collaborat ...

(1888–1946) *

Ervin Hatibi Ervin Hatibi, Albanian poet, essayist and painter. Hatibi was born in Tirana, Albania, on May 31, 1974. At the age of 14, Hatibi published his first poems in the literary pages of the main newspapers of the epoch. His first poetry collection ''Pë ...

(born 1974) * Irhan Jubica (born 1973) * Ismail Kadare (born 1936) *

Karmel Kandreva Karmel Kandreva ( it, Carmelo Candreva; 1931–1982) was an Arbëresh writer and poet. He was born in Cerzeto (''Qanë'') in Calabria, Italy. Among his published works is a study ''Didactic test in a bilingual Arberesh environment'', about the ...

(1931–1982) * Veli Karahoda (born 1968) *

Teodor Keko Teodor Keko (1958–2002) was an Albanian writer, journalist, and politician. Life Keko was born in the Albanian capital, Tirana, on 2 September 1958, to cinematographer parents Endri and Xhanfise Keko. He studied at the Qemal Stafa High School ...

(1958–2002) * Ernest Koliqi (1903–1975) *

Mark Krasniqi Mark Krasniqi (9 October 1920 – 28 August 2015) was an Kosovar Albanian ethnographist, publicist, writer and translator who did most of his work while residing in Yugoslavia. Biography He was born on 19 October 1920 in near Peć, in t ...

(1920–2015) *

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) *

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 Alba ...

(born 1948) *

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 m ...

(born 1968) *

Sejfulla Malëshova Sejfulla Malëshova (2 March 1900 – 9 June 1971) was an Albanian politician, writer and translator. He was an early member of the Communist leadership in post-World War II Albania and served as the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda. Biography ...

(1900–1971) * Migjeni (1911–1938) * Betim Muço (1947–2015) * Faruk Myrtaj (born 1955) *

Havzi Nela Havzi Nela (20 February 1934 – 10 August 1988) was an Albanian dissident poet, born in the village of Kollovoz in the district of Kukës. He managed to finish both elementary and high school while living in extreme poverty. In high school he b ...

(1934–1988) *

Dhimitër Pasko Dhimitër Pasko ( ro, Dimitrie Pascu; 13 September 1907 – 4 May 1967) was a well-known Albanian writer, literary critic and translator. Along with Ernest Koliqi he is considered as the founder of modern Albanian prose; in Albanian literature his ...

(1907–1967) * Arshi Pipa (1920–1997) * Lasgush Poradeci (1899–1987) * Vinçens Prennushi (1885–1949) *

Leon Qafzezi Leon Qafzezi (born 23 February 1953 in Tirana, Albania) is an Albanian writer and cineaste. Life Leon Qafzezi was born 23 February 1953 in Albania, the son of Niko Qafzezi and Amalia Qafzezi (Zheji). He studied at the Academy of Arts of Al ...

(born 1953) * Kadrush Radogoshi (born 1948) *

Nijazi Ramadani Nijazi Ramadani (born February 14, 1964 in Kokaj, Kosovo, Yugoslavia) is a Kosovar Albanian poet, novelist and literary critic. Education He completed high school in Gjilan. He then graduated from the University of Prishtina's Faculty of Educa ...

(born 1964) * Giuseppe Schirò Di Maggio (born 1944) *

Dhimitër Shuteriqi Dhimitër Shuteriqi (26 July 1915 ‒ 22 July 2003) was an Albanian scholar, literary historian, and writer. He participated in the anti-fascist National Liberation Movement. After the war he was a member of the People's Assembly and one of th ...

(1915–2003) *

Drago Siliqi Drago Siliqi (9 June 1930–13 July 1963) was an Albanian poet, literary critic, and publisher. At the age of 14 he became a scout and then a partisan of the National Liberation Movement. He published his first collection of poetry, and then pu ...

(1930–1963) * Llazar Siliqi (1924–2001) *

Risto Siliqi Risto Siliqi (16 August 1882 – 1 May 1936) was an Albanian poet, publicist, lawyer, and militant of the Albanian national cause. His work was influenced by ideas and sentiments of the Romantic-Nationalism like other poets of the national Awake ...

(1882–1936) * Nokë Sinishtaj (born 1944) *

Xhevahir Spahiu Xhevahir Spahiu (born 1 March 1945 in Malind, Skrapar District, Albania) is an Albanian poet. Biography Spahiu studied at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Philology and History, Literature-Language Branch. Since 1968, he has worked as a jo ...

(born 1945) *

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 ...

(born 1951) * Edi Shukriu (born 1950) * Skënder Temali (born 1946) * Bilal Xhaferri (1935–1986) * Mihal Zallari (1894–1976)

21st century

* Ndriçim Ademaj (born 1991) * Mark Lucgjonaj (born 1986)

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

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