Robert Shvarc (10 December 1932 – 25 April 2003) born in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its a ...

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, was an

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translator, writer and poet, recognized as one of the best translators from German of the 20th century and beginning of new millennium. His mother was from Elbasan and his Jewish father was from

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, and they lived in

Shkodër Shkodër ( , ; sq-definite, Shkodra) is the fifth-most-populous city of the Republic of Albania and the seat of Shkodër County and Shkodër Municipality. The city sprawls across the Plain of Mbishkodra between the southern part of Lake Shkod ...

, Albania. There, Robert Shvarc grew up as a lover of his Albanian mother's language and is the first who brought to the Albanian reader some masterpieces of literature such as the novels of Gabriel García Márquez, Erich Maria Remarque,

Lion Feuchtwanger Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Ju ...

, dramas of

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

; books of poetry from Goethe, Schiller, and Heine. Also Shvarc translated into German many books of prominent Albanian poets and writers.

Prizes and awards

* 1995 – Embassy of Germany in

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, Albania awarded Shvarc the prize " German Federal Cross of Merit" – "Kryqi i meritave gjermane", which was practiced for first time in this country of

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. * 2002 – Shvarc was awarded by Albanian Capitol's Municipality the title Honor Citizen of Tirana. * 2002 – The President of the Republic of Albania awarded Shvarc the title

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Master – Mjeshtër i Madh (Grand Master of Work).

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shvarc, Robert 1932 births 2003 deaths Albanian writers German–Albanian translators Writers from Sarajevo Albanian people of Jewish descent 20th-century translators Writers from Shkodër 20th-century German male writers Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany German male non-fiction writers Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe