List of Albanian writers
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- Faik KonicaFaik KonicaFaik Konica , born in Konitsa, was one of the greatest figures of Albanian culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Prewar Albanian minister to Washington, his literary review, Albania, became the focal publication of Albanian writers living abroad...
- Fan Noli
- Fatos ArapiFatos ArapiFatos Arapi is an Albanian poet, short story writer, translator and journalist, laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award for 2008.-Biography:...
- Fatos KongoliFatos KongoliFatos Kongoli has recently become one of the most forceful and convincing representatives of contemporary Albanian prose. He was born and raised in Elbasan and studied mathematics in China during the tense years of the Sino-Albanian alliance. Kongoli chose not to publish any major works during the...
- Fatos LubonjaFatos LubonjaFatos Lubonja is an Albanian writer and dissident.- Life :Fatos is the son of Todi Lubonja, who was a close associate of Enver Hoxha and head of Albanian national television until the early 1970s. In the course of Hoxha's split with the USSR in 1960, Todi Lubonja was arrested for voicing opposition...
- Filip ShirokaFilip ShirokaFilip Shiroka was a classical Rilindja poet whose verse was first to become known in later years. He was born and raised in Shkodër and educated there by the Franciscans. Among his teachers was poet Leonardo De Martino , whose influence is omnipresent in Shiroka's verse...
- Flora BrovinaFlora BrovinaFlora Brovina 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 Pristina, where she went to school and began studying medicine...
- Frang BardhiFrang BardhiFrang Bardhi was an Albanian bishop and author of the early eras of Albanian literature.-Life:He was born in Kallmet or Nënshat in the northern Albanian Zadrima region near Lezhë...
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- Gavril Dara the YoungerGavril Dara the YoungerGavril Ndre Dara commonly known as Gavril Dara Junior was an Arbëreshë politician and poet of the 19th century. He is regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening.- Life :...
- Giulio VaribobaGiulio VaribobaGiulio Variboba , was an Arbëresh poet that gave an important contribution to the literature in the Albanian language.-Life:...
[Jul Variboba] - Gjeke MarinajGjeke Marinaj-Early life and career:Gjekë Marinaj was born in 1965 in the small town of Brrut located in the Malësi e Madhe District of northern Albania, half-way through the four-decade rule of communist leader Enver Hoxha. Raised within an authoritarian state, Marinaj aspired to a writing career early on and...
- Gjergj FishtaGjergj FishtaGjergj Fishta was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, rilindas, and a translator. Notably he was the chairman of the commission of the Congress of Monastir, which sanctioned the Albanian alphabet. In 1937 he completed and published his epic masterpiece Lahuta e Malcis, an epic poem written in Gheg...
- Gjon BuzukuGjon BuzukuGjon Buzuku was an Albanian Catholic clergyman who wrote the first known printed book in Albanian.Gjon Buzuku was born in the village of Ljare in the Bar district, close to Northern Albania , then Ottoman Empire. He probably lived in or near Venice, Italy...
- Gjon MuzakaGjon MuzakaGjon Muzaka wan an Albanian nobleman from the Muzaka family, that has historically ruled in the Myzeqe region, Albania. In 1510 he wrote a Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi . The work was published in Karl Hopf's Chroniques gréco-romaines, Paris 1873,...
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- Lasgush PoradeciLasgush PoradeciLlazar Sotir Gusho, , is a 20th century Albanian poet and writer known by the pseudonym Lasgush Poradeci.-Biography:...
- Lekë MatrëngaLekë MatrëngaLuca Matranga was an Arbëresh writer and priest from Sicily. He is regarded as one of the authors of the era of early Albanian literature.-Works:...
- Ludmilla PajoLudmilla PajoLudmilla Pajo was a Moscow-born Albanian journalist.She was born in Moscow on December 21, 1947. Her parents were pursuing their studies at the time in Russia and returned to Albania when Ludmilla was 6 years old...
- Luigj GurakuqiLuigj GurakuqiLuigj Gurakuqi was an Albanian writer and politician. He was an important figure of the Albanian National Awakening and was honoured with the People's Hero of Albania medal.- Life :...
- Luljeta LleshanakuLuljeta LleshanakuLuljeta Lleshanaku is an Albanian poet who is the recipient of the 2009 Vilenice Kristal prize for world poetry She was educated in literature at the University of Tirana and was editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Zëri i rinisë...
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- Mario BellizziMario BellizziMario Bellizzi , a poet of the Albanian-speaking Arbëresh minority of southern Italy, was born in San Basile in the province of Cosenza. His verse has appeared in various Arbëresh periodicals in southern Italy, as well as in Kosovo and Albania. Bellizzi currently lives in Trebisacce on the Gulf of...
- Marin BarletiMarin BarletiMarin Barleti . was an Albanian historian and Catholic priest. He is considered the first Albanian historian, especially because of his biography on Skanderbeg, translated in many languages in the 16th to the 18th centuries.-Life:Barleti lived in Shkodër and was a scholar and a clergyman...
- Mark MarkuMark MarkuMark Marku is a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania for the Democratic Party of Albania.-References:...
- Martin CamajMartin CamajMartin Camaj was an Albanian linguist, writer and folklorist. He is regarded as one of the major authors of modern Albanian prose. His novel Rrathë is considered to be the first psychological novel in Albanian.- Life :...
- Migjeni - Millosh Gjergj Nikolla
- Mimoza AhmetiMimoza AhmetiMimoza Ahmeti , one of the ‘enfants terribles’ of the nineties, is among the most prominent of contemporary Albanian poets, and perhaps the most well-known female Albanian poet. Her most popular and critically acclaimed book is the collection of 53 poems Delirium, published in 1994. Her most recent...
- Mitrush KuteliMitrush KuteliDhimitër Pasko , , alias Mitrush Kuteli , was an Albanian writer and translator.-Career:...
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- Sabri GodoSabri GodoSabri Godo is a politician, writer and screenwriter in Albania. He was born on August 8, 1929 in Delvinë. He did primary school in Delvinë and then secondary school in Tirana where he continued the latter left in the half in the third year where he participated in anti-fascist war, 15 July 1943...
- Sami Frashëri
- Sejfulla MalëshovaSejfulla MalëshovaSejfulla Malëshova was an Albanian politician and writer.- Career :In 1924, a 23 years old Malëshova was Fan Noli's personal secretary. He held that position after having studied some medicine in Italy. After Noli's government was overthrown, Malëshova fled to Paris and then to Moscow, where he...
- Sinan HasaniSinan HasaniSinan Hasani was a Yugoslav novelist, statesman, diplomat and a former President of Presidency Yugoslavia, a revolving form of executive leadership which rendered him the President of Yugoslavia at the time as well. He was of Albanian descent....
- Stavri PoneStavri PoneStavri Pone is an Albanian writer, mostly known as a children's writer.-Biography:He was born in Albania, Fier, where he finished high school and continued his education in the University of Tirana, majoring in the English Language. He has worked as a high school teacher, a literature theory...
- Shefki HysaShefki HysaShefki Mazar Hysa - is an Albanian writer and journalist.- Biography :He continued his elementary studies in Shalës of Konispol, Çamëri region.In 1976, he continued his studies at high school Konispol...
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