Mimoza AHMETI
BIOGRAPHY
Mimoza Ahmeti (b. 1963) from Kruja is one of the ‘enfants
terribles’ of the nineties, who set about to expand the
horizons and explore the possibilities offered to her by her
own senses. Dragging the nation, in her idiosyncratic manner,
along the bumpy road to Europe, she has managed in recent years
to provoke Albania’s impoverished and weary society into
much needed reflection which, with time, may lead to new and
more sincerely human values. After two volumes of verse in the
late eighties, it was the fifty-three poems in the collection
Delirium, Tirana 1994 (Delirium), which caught the public’s
attention. Mimoza Ahmeti’s poetry has been well received
by the new generation of readers in tune, for the first time,
with Western culture. Her candid expressions of wide-eyed feminine
desire and indulgence in sensual pleasures, and the crystalline
fluidity of her language have already made of her a modern classic.
The traditional polarization of male and female verse would seem
to dissolve under the passionate force of her quill. |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Albania (late 20th - 21st centuries)
