Rudolf MARKU
BIOGRAPHY
Rudolf Marku (b. 1952) was born and raised in Lezha.
He graduated from the University of Tirana in 1968 and taught
school for some time. Marku worked for a number of years as editor
of the Tirana literary newspaper Drita (The light) where
he introduced many new and previously ostracized writers to the
Albanian public. In the autumn of 1991 he was appointed head
of foreign cultural relations at the Albanian Foreign Ministry
and served at the Albanian Embassy in London, where he presently
resides. Marku's first volume of verse, entitled Shokët
e mi, Tirana 1974 (My friends), led to his banishment to
the countryside. It was followed by Rruga, Tirana 1977
(The road); Sërishmi, Tirana 1982 (Once again); Udhëtim
për në vendin e gjërave që njohim, Tirana
1989 (Voyage to the place of things we know); and Vdekja lexon
gazetën, Elbasan 1995 (Death reads the newspaper). Marku has translated Thomas Eliot, Ezra
Pound and W.H. Auden into Albanian. |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Albania (late 20th - 21st centuries)
