Luljeta lleshanaku biography of william shakespeare

  • This article focuses on contemporary Albanian poetry and on its development during the last decade of the twentieth century when the.
  • Luljeta Lleshanaku Biography Luljeta Lleshanaku (b.
  • In these lines, personal biography disperses into the history of an entire generation that grew up under the oppressive dictatorship of the poet's native.

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    Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in Elbasan, Albania in 1968. Under Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist dictatorship, she grew up under house arrest. Lleshanaku was not permitted to attend college or publish her poetry until the weakening and eventual collapse of the regime in the early 1990s. She was eventually able to study Albanian philology and literature at the University of Tirana, and later attended the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College, USA. She has worked as a school teacher, literary magazine editor, screenwriter, television author and currently as a research director at the Institute of Studies of Communist Genocide in Albania. She was a fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1999, and received a fellowship from Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2008-2009.

    Bloodaxe published her first UK edition, Haywire: New & Selected Poems, a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation, in 2011, drawing on two edit

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    Marianna Kiyanovska and Luljeta Lleshanaku are this year’s European Poets of Freedom!

    For the first time since the start of the europeisk Poet of Freedom award, the Jury has decided to award two poets.The Jury recommended that two equal Literary Awards of the City of Gdańsk be granted in a verdict approved by Mayor Aleksandra Dulkiewicz.We are delighted to inform that the 2022 European Poets of Freedom are Marianna Kiyanovska (Ukraine) with The Voices of Babyn Yar and Luljeta Lleshanaku (Albania) with Water and Carbon.The translators of the selected volumes, Adam Pomorski and Dorota Horodyska, will also be awarded.The tjänsteman award ceremony will take place on 10 June during the European Poet of Freedom Festival (9-11 June).

    The Jury of the European Poet of Freedom Literary Award convened in Gdańsk on 25 April 2022: Anna Czekanowicz, Krzysztof Czyżewski (chairman), Paweł Huelle, Zbigniew Mikołejko, Stanisław Rosiek, Anda Rottenberg, Beata Stasińska, Olga Toka

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    April 15, 2020
    THIS GESTURE

    Look what we have here:
    some books bought with a little savings,
    as if land purchased for a house
    that you might never build. Plato, Hegel,
    The Marxist Movement, heavy cloth covers. Sideways, behind Aristotle,
    rests Art Nouveau,
    like the head of a woman nodding off on the train, your shoulder still out of politeness.
    Books in foreign languages, bought with the last
    change
    from shops you’ll never visit again:
    Tarkovsky’s Techniques, exchanged for five food vouchers;
    Bergman, Hitchcock, Louis Buñuel reveal only
    part of the wall,
    each the end of a misleading path inside a
    pyramid.
    African Masks, Aztec Culture, Egyptian Gods
    all bought on a rainy day perhaps, as an excuse to
    stay indoors.
    And again the visual arts albums
    labelled Ars in Latin like medicinal bottles
    that camouflage a bitter taste.

    Hugo, Turgenev, Stendhal . . .

    relics of first love, second love, of . . .