Flutura AÇKA
BIOGRAPHY
Flutura Açka (1966) was born in Elbasan and graduated
in economics in 1988 from the University of Tirana. She worked
for a number of years as a journalist in Elbasan and for the
Onufri publishing company, before founding her own publishing
company, Skanderbeg Books (www.albliterature.com).
As a poet, Flutura Açka first gained wide recognition
when she received the "Lyre of Struga" award at the
1997 International Nights of Poetry festival held in Struga,
Macedonia. Among her major publications are the poetry volumes:
Tri vjeshta larg (Three Autumns Away), Elbasan 1993; Mure
vetmie (Walls of Solitude), Elbasan 1995; Festë me
ankthin (Feast with Anguish), Elbasan 1997; Kënga
e Aretuzës (The Song of Arethusa), Prishtina 1998; Kurth'
i diellit (The Sun Trap), Tirana 2003; and the short novel
Vetmi gruaje (A Woman's Solitude), Tirana 2001. A volume
of her poetry has been translated into Macedonian. |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Albania (late 20th - 21st centuries)
