Visar Zhiti

The Condemned Apple. Selected Poetry

A bilingual edition

Klappentext:

In this bilingual edition, Green Integer presents, for the first time in English, the poetry of the greatest living Albanian poet, Visar Zhiti. As Janice Mathie-Heck makes clear in her introduction, Zhiti lived a life of great privation: locked away in dictator Enver Hoxha's prisons, Zhiti was not allowed pencil or paper. He wrote his poems in his mind, and he and other prisoners committed them to memory, in part to keep their sanity and to enliven the terrible lives they were forced to bear. Only when Hoxha fell from power and the political prisoners were freed was Zhiti's poetry brought to print. Now English-speaking readers can share in the remarkably gentle and imagistically rich poems produced out of Zhiti's years of suffering.

Über die Autorin / über den Autor:

Visar Zhiti was born 1952 in Durrës, Albania. He entered a career of teaching and turned to poetry. In 1979 he was arrested and condemned to 13 years of prison due to ideological errors. In 1987 he was released and allowed to work in a brick factory in Lushnja, in 1991 he managed to travel to Italy where he worked until his return to Albania in 1994, where he engaged for some time in politics. As cultural attaché of the Albanian foreign service he worked from 1997 to 1999 in Rome.

Preis: CHF 19.50
Sprache: Englisch, Albanisch (aus dem Albanischen von Robert Elsie)
Art: Taschenbuch
Erschienen: 2005
Verlag: Green Integer
ISBN: 978-1-931243-72-8
Masse: 314 S.

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