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Albanian Literature in Translation

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Albanian Authors

Early Authors
(16th - 18th centuries)

Classical Authors
(19th - early 20th centuries)

Modern Authors
from Albania

(late 20th - 21st centuries)

Modern Authors
from Kosova, Macedonia
and Montenegro

(late 20th - 21st centuries)

Modern Arbëresh
(Italo-Albanian) Authors
(late 20th - 21st centuries)

Oral Literature

    Oral Literature

    
Mündlich überlieferte Literatur
    Littérature orale
    Letërsia gojore
 

 

"Mother from Laberia" by Nexhmedin Zajmi

 

"Albanian Smoking" by Paja Jovanovic

Folktales

Märchen
Contes populaires
Përralla


The Boy and the Earthly Beauty

The Scurfhead

The Three Friends
and the Earthly Beauty


The Three Brothers
and the Three Sisters


The Youth and the Maiden
with Stars on their Foreheads
and Crescents on their Breasts


The Shoes

The Girl who Became a Boy

The Maiden in the Box

The Tale of the Youth
who Understood
the Language of the Animals


The Stirrup Moor

The King's Daughter and the Skull

The Bear and the Dervish

The Snake and the King's Daughter

Gjizar the Nightingale

Half Rooster

The Boy with No Name

The Barefaced Man
and the Pasha's Brother


The Foolish Youth and the Ring

The Princess of China

The Jealous Sisters

The Grateful Snake
and the Magic Case


The Maiden
who was Promised to the Sun

Oral verse

Volkslyrik
Poésie populaire
Poezia popullore


The Cycle of Mujo and Halili

The Song of Gjergj Elez Alia

Eufrozina of Janina

 
 

Legends

Legenden
Légendes
Legjenda


Baba Tomor

Sari Salltëk

Aga Ymeri of Ulqin

Gjergj Elez Alia

Legends of Mujo and Halili

The Legend of Rozafat Castle

Scanderbeg and Ballaban

Shega and Vllastar

Webdesign J. Groß 

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