Sali BASHOTA
BIOGRAPHY
Sali Bashota was born on 31 August 1959 in Çaravik
(Qarrat) in the municipality of Klina in Kosova. He studied Albanian
language and literature at the University of Prishtina where
he later taught literature. He is editor-in-chief of the literary
periodical Jeta e re (New Life) and in 2003 was appointed
director of the National and University Library of Kosova in
Prishtina.
Bashota is the author of seven volumes of verse, among which
are Ndiz dritën magjike (Light the Magic Lamp), Prishtina
2002; Bukuri i nëmur (Wretched Beauty), Prishtina
2006; and Jetë me vdekje (Life with Death), Tirana
2006. Collections of his poetry have appeared in German, Schalte
das magische Licht ein (Light the Magic Lamp), Zürich
2004; in Romanian Exilul sufletului, The Exile of the
Soul), Bucharest 2004; and in English, Only Death is White,
Prishtina 2005, translated by Avni Spahiu. |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Kosova, Macedonia and Montenegro (late 20th
- 21st centuries)
