Kim MEHMETI
BIOGRAPHY
Kim Mehmeti (b. 1955) is a leading and innovative prose writer
from the Albanian community in Macedonia. He was born in Gërçec
near Skopje, where he now lives and works. He is the author of
eleven volumes of prose, including Lulehëna (Moon
Flower), Peja 1997, Fshati i fëmijve të mallkuar
(The Village of the Damned Children), Peja 1998, and Ritet
e Nishanes (Nishane's Rites), Peja 2004. One of his novels
has appeared in German, Das Dorf der verfluchten Kinder
(The Village of the Damned Children), Klagenfurt 2002. Mehmeti
also writes in Macedonian and translates between the two languages. |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Kosova, Macedonia and Montenegro (late 20th
- 21st centuries)
