Fatos Arapi
Fatos Arapi was born in the year 1930. He is a poet, a short story writer and a journalist from Albania. He is also a translator, laureate ...
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Fatos Arapi was born in the year 1930. He is a poet, a short story writer and a journalist from Albania. He is also a translator, laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award for the year 2008.
Biography
Arapi was born in the year 1930 in the village of Zvernec near Vlore. From the year 1949 to the year 1954, he studied economics in Sofia, Bulgaria, and then he began to serve as a journalist in his country. He quickly became popular in the country as a poet and he carried on as a researcher for History and Philology Department of the University of Tirana. He is currently living in Tirana, Albania.
About his Poetic Works
Despite the cultural isolation of his country, he never became afraid of innovation. He has abeen a a pioneer of free verse and experimental poetry in the 1960s Albania. The maritime universe has been a great source of inspiration to his verses, due to he was born on the seaside. He is also an author of several love poems, elegies, meditative poems, with the question of eternal ife always being the recurring theme of the poems.
He has translated the works of poets like Sapho, Pablo Neruda and Nikola Vaptsarov into the language of his country, Albania. He was chief editor of two anthologies; Songs of the Peoples and Anthology of Turkish Verse.
Selected works
Poetry
• Shtigjet poetike (Poetic Paths) 1962
• Poema dhe vjersha (Poems and Verses) 1966
• Ritme të hekura (Rhythms of Iron) 1968
• Më jepni një emër (Give Me A Name), 1972 (later banned by Enver Hoxha's regime)
• Gloria victis,1997
• Eklipsi i endrrës (Solar Eclipse) 2002
Short stories
• Patate e egra (Sour Potatoes)1970
• Dikush më buzëqeshte (Someone Smiled At Me) 1972
• Gjeniu pa kokë (Headless Genius) 1999
Plays
• Partizani pa emër (The Anonymous Partisan) 1962
• Qezari dhe ushtari i mirë Shvejk (Caesar and the Good Soldier Švejk) 1995.
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Arapi was born in the year 1930 in the village of Zvernec near Vlore. From the year 1949 to the year 1954, he studied economics in Sofia, Bulgaria, and then he began to serve as a journalist in his country. He quickly became popular in the country as a poet and he carried on as a researcher for History and Philology Department of the University of Tirana. He is currently living in Tirana, Albania.
About his Poetic Works
Despite the cultural isolation of his country, he never became afraid of innovation. He has abeen a a pioneer of free verse and experimental poetry in the 1960s Albania. The maritime universe has been a great source of inspiration to his verses, due to he was born on the seaside. He is also an author of several love poems, elegies, meditative poems, with the question of eternal ife always being the recurring theme of the poems.
He has translated the works of poets like Sapho, Pablo Neruda and Nikola Vaptsarov into the language of his country, Albania. He was chief editor of two anthologies; Songs of the Peoples and Anthology of Turkish Verse.
Selected works
Poetry
• Shtigjet poetike (Poetic Paths) 1962
• Poema dhe vjersha (Poems and Verses) 1966
• Ritme të hekura (Rhythms of Iron) 1968
• Më jepni një emër (Give Me A Name), 1972 (later banned by Enver Hoxha's regime)
• Gloria victis,1997
• Eklipsi i endrrës (Solar Eclipse) 2002
Short stories
• Patate e egra (Sour Potatoes)1970
• Dikush më buzëqeshte (Someone Smiled At Me) 1972
• Gjeniu pa kokë (Headless Genius) 1999
Plays
• Partizani pa emër (The Anonymous Partisan) 1962
• Qezari dhe ushtari i mirë Shvejk (Caesar and the Good Soldier Švejk) 1995.
