Sterjo Spasse ( mk, Стерјо Спасе) (14 August 1914 – 12 September 1989) was an
Albanian prose writer and
novelist.
Life
Sterjo Spasse was born in 1914 in
Gollomboç,
Pustec Municipality,
Korçë District
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,
Albania, of
Macedonian Slav
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Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to:
People Modern
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descent. Spasse pursued the elementary school in
Korçë, and later, the
Shkolla Normale e Elbasanit. He worked as a teacher in
Derviçan
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, in the
Dropull region,
and then went to the
University of Florence, Italy to study
Pedagogy. He also pursued a master in literature in the
Soviet Union.
Along his various contributions in the pedagogic field and translations, his main fieldwork was creative writing, which started in the 1930s. He published four collections of short stories and 10 novels:
After World War II he worked as a literary critic and writer in the pedagogic magazines ''The new school'' ( sq, Shkolla e re), and ''The popular education'' ( sq, Arsimi popullor), as well as ''Our Literature'' ( sq, Literatura jonë), and ''November'' ( sq,
Nëntori
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).
Spasse's novel ''Pse?'' is considered one of his better novels.
He was a member of the
Albanian League of Writers and Artists
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.
Spasse died in
Tirana, Albania in 1989.
A museum dedicated to Sterjo Spasse was opened in his native village of Glloboçen in 2022.
Short stories
*''"Kuror rinie"'' (Youth crown), 1934.
*''"Në krahët e një femre"'' (In the arms of a woman), 1934.
*''"Nusja pa duvak"'' (Bride without veil), 1944.
*''"Të fala nga fshati"'', (Regards from the village), 1958.
Novels
*''"Pse ?"'' (Why ?), 1935.
*''"Afërdita"'' (
Afërdita), 1944.
*''"Ata nuk ishin vetëm"'' (They were not alone), 1952.
*''"Afërdita përsëri në fshat"'' (Afërdita back in the village), 1954.
*''"Buzë liqenit"'' (Lakeside), 1965.
*''"Zjarre..."'' (Fires...), 1972.
*''"Zgjimi"'' (Awakening), 1973.
*''"Pishtarë"'' (Beacons), 1975.
*''"Ja vdekje ja liri"'' (Death or freedom), 1978.
*''"Kryengritësit"'' (Rebels), 1983.
References
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1914 births
Ethnic Macedonian people
Albanian-language writers
Albanian novelists
Postmodern writers
1989 deaths
20th-century novelists
Socialist realism writers
University of Elbasan alumni
People from Pustec