Elvira DONES
BIOGRAPHY
Elvira Dones (b. 1960) was born in the ancient port city of
Durrës. She studied at the University of Tirana and worked
for a time for the television and film industry there. In 1988
she managed to flee the country, which was then still under Stalinist
rule, and took up residence in Switzerland. She now works as
a documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, based in Washington,
D.C. Her first novel Dashuri e huaj (A Foreign Love, Tirana
1997), was followed by Kardigan (Cardigan, Tirana 1998),
the short story collection Lule të gabuara (Mistaken
Flowers, Tirana 1999), and by the explosive novel Yjet nuk
vishen kështu (Stars Don't Dress Up Like That, Elbasan
2000), which has been translated into French and Italian. Much
of her writing, not without autobiographical elements, deals
with the theme of women as emigrants. Website: www.elviradones.com |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Albania (late 20th - 21st centuries)
