Agron TUFA
BIOGRAPHY
Agron Tufa (b. 1967), was born in Suhadoll in the Dibra region
of eastern Albania and studied literature at the University of
Tirana. He continued his studies in Moscow in the 1990s where
he graduated in translation theory, with particular concentration
on the work of Joseph Brodsky. Since his return to Albania, he
has been involved in the literary magazine E për-7-shme
(Suitable) and edited the much-admired periodical Aleph.
He is now editor of the literary supplement FjalA (The
Word) and teaches literature at the University of Tirana.
Tufa has published poetry and prose of note. He is the author
of the verse collections Aty te portat Skée, Elbasan
1996 (There at the Scaean Gates); and Rrethinat e Atlantidës,
Tirana 2002 (The Surrounding of Atlantis); and the novels Dueli,
Tirana 2002 (The Duel); and Fabula rasa, Tirana 2004 (Fabula
Rasa). He has also translated many Russian authors, among whom
Joseph Brodsky, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, Boris Pasternak,
Andrei Platonov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, and Vladimir
Sorokin. |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Albania (late 20th - 21st centuries)
