Azem SHKRELI
BIOGRAPHY
Azem Shkreli (1938-1997) has been described as a poet of profound
ideas and critical judgments. He was born in the Rugova mountains
near Peja and became head of Kosova Film Studios in Prishtina.
Shkreli is an intellectual poet who, though highly expressive,
is by no means verbose. His urban perception of things has given
new significance to his experience of rural customs among the
rugged tribes of the Rugova highlands with their traditional
wisdom and way of life. His early volumes of verse offered masterful
portraits of these legendary mountain inhabitants. The idyllic
though specifically organized landscape which Azem Shkreli paints
does not blind him to problems of ethics. Much of his verse,
a moral catharsis in words, is devoted to the oppressed peoples
of the Third World, expressing a poetic solidarity with them
against exploitation and suffering. Shkreli is also the author
of the short story collection Sytë e Evës, Prishtina
1965 (Eve’s eyes), and the novel Karvani i bardhë,
Prishtina 1960 (The white caravan). |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Kosova, Macedonia and Montenegro (late 20th
- 21st centuries)
