Ornela VORPSI
BIOGRAPHY
Ornela Vorpsi was born in Tirana in 1968 and studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts there. In 1991 she emigrated to Milan and
in 1997 moved on to Paris where she works as a photographer,
painter and video artist.
Vorpsi's stunningly refreshing novel, "The Country Where
No One Ever Dies," was originally written in Italian, not
in Albanian. It was first published in French as Le pays où
l'on ne meurt jamais (Arles: Actes Sud 2004), and has since
appeared Italian, German and Spanish. Vorpsi is also the author
of Nothing obvious (Zürich 2001), Buvez du cacao
Van Houten! (Arles 2005), Vetri rosa (Rome 2006),
and La mano che non mordi (Turin 2007). |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Albania (late 20th - 21st centuries)
