Ali Podrimja

Ali Podrimja was born in 1942 in Gjakova, had a difficult childhood and studied Albanian language and literature in Pristina. Encouraged by Esad Mekuli, he published his first poem at the age of fifteen and his first collection, an elegiac one, while he was still a secondary-school pupil. The author of more than a dozen collections, he freed Albanian verse from certain metrical rules and became the best-known Kosovar poet abroad. He received the Nikolaus Lenau Prize in 1999 and died in Lodève in 2012.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryLum LumiAli Podrimja · 1982not translated into EnglishLiterature