Fatos Arapi

Fatos Arapi was born on 19 July 1930 in Zvërnec, near Vlora, into a literate family. He studied economics in Sofia from 1949 to 1954, then worked as a journalist in Tirana, and later taught at the faculty of history and philology. A pioneer of free verse and new forms in Albanian poetry of the sixties, he also wrote short stories and novels. In 2008 he received the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings, the first Albanian to do so, and he died in Tirana on 11 October 2018.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryMë jepni një emërFatos Arapi · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature