Ornela Vorpsi (born 3 August 1968,

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 slight valley to the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea ...

), is an Albanian writer and photographer from the Vorpsi family in Tirana. Ornela studied at the

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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

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and

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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

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