Lindita ARAPI
BIOGRAPHY
Lindita Arapi was born in Lushnja in 1972. She studied at
the University of Tirana in 1994 and began working as a journalist
and moderator for Albanian television (TVSH). In 1996 she was
awarded a fellowship as a ‘writer in residence’ at
the Heinrich Böll House (Düren, Germany) as well as
a scholarship by the International Art Link (New York). She has
also taken part in the ‘International Writing Program’
of the University of Iowa as an Honorary Fellow in Writing. She
finished her doctorate at the University of Vienna, and currently
lives in Bonn (Germany). Lindita Arapi, who is among the leading
female poets of the post-communist generation from Albania, has
published the four following volumes of verse: Kufomë
lulesh (Corpse of flowers, Tirana 1993), translated into
Italian as Il cadavere fiorito (Brindisi 1993), Ndodhi
në shpirt (It happened in my soul, Elbasan 1995), and
Melodi të heshtjes (Melody of silence, Peja 1998). |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Albania (late 20th - 21st centuries)
