Xhevahir Spahiu

Xhevahir Spahiu was born on 1 March 1945 in Malind, a village in Skrapar at the foot of Mount Tomorr. He went to school in Vlora and Berat, studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Tirana until 1967, then joined the party daily in 1968. In 1973, a poem published in a journal led to his being named and attacked by the head of state, and he was afterwards repeatedly barred from publication and from his work. A librettist at the Opera and Ballet Theatre, in 1993 he became secretary of the Writers' League, which he has chaired since 1998.

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• PoetryNesër jam atyXhevahir Spahiu · 1987not translated into EnglishLiterature