Arian Leka
Arian Leka (* 1966 in Durrës ) is an Albanian writer .
After graduating from high school, Leka first became a musician. He is a classically trained flautist and even today he occasionally plays at public concerts. He later studied Albanian language and literature in Tirana and new European literature in Florence .
Arian Leka lives and works in Tirana. So far (2009) he has published several volumes of poetry, short stories and a novel. He also works as a translator from Italian . In his hometown of Durrës he founded the poetry festival Poeteka , from which the literary magazine of the same name emerged, of which he is editor-in-chief and publisher.
Short stories and poems by Leka have been published outside Albania in various anthologies . a. in English, German and Italian as well as in Serbo-Croatian. In March 2009 Leka read from his works at the Leipzig Book Fair .
Works
- Ky vend i qetë ku s'ndodh asgjë. (1994) Short Stories
- Veset e të vdekurve (1997) novel
- Gjarpri i shtëpisë (2002) novella
- Anija e gjumit (2000) poems
- Strabizëm (2004) poems
- Libër deti. (2009) Poems, German: A book, a sea. Ottensheim 2012 ISBN 978-3-900986-78-0
Publications in German
- Square in the chess field. Illyrians, Myrmidons, Aromanians and Gypsies - Balkan memories , in: Lettre International, LI98, autumn 2012.
- Durrës, geoemotions. From the multicultural self-sufficiency to the monoculture of the open city , in: Lettre International, LI100, spring 2013.
- One book, one sea. Poems. Edition Tanhäuser, 2017.
Web links
- Arian Leka on the website of the German albanologist Joachim Röhm
- Poems by Arian Leka at transcript (German by Hans-Joachim Lanksch)
- Arian Leka on the TRADUKI website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leka, Arian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Albanian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durrës |