Poetry
Pëshpëritjet e mëngjesit
Not translated into English
Fahredin Gunga · 1961
Synopsis
Fahredin Gunga's first collection, published in 1961, seven years after his first published poem. The pieces are not described; the critics say that his early works carry the momentum of Kosovar poetry of the sixties, and that his poetry, a poetry of searching, proceeds through abstract symbols and obscure metaphors that often tip into surrealism.
Context
Gunga published his first poems in Jeta e re, then in the press of Pristina and Skopje, before this first book. Nine collections followed up to 1996. In the seventies he produced films and series for television. Robert Elsie translated a few of his poems into English in an anthology of modern Albanian poetry published in London in 1993.
Who it is for
Poems in Albanian, with no French translation; a few can be read in English in Elsie's anthology.
Prizes and reception
Robert Elsie counts him among the Kosovar poets of his generation and translated several of his poems.