Bedri Myftari

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Bedri Myftari (born December 21, 1938 in Filiates , † November 8, 2013 in Tirana ) was an Albanian writer , journalist and publicist .

Life

Myftari was born in 1938 in the village of Sklav bei Filiates in what is now Greece . His family belonged to the autochthonous Albanian population of the southern Epirus region - the Çamen . At the age of five or six, Myftari and his family had to flee to Albania in the course of the collective displacement of around 20,000 Çamen by the Greeks .

Myftari attended a seven-year elementary school in the southern Albanian city of Fier and later a technical and financial secondary school in the capital Tirana . He graduated from high school there.

In the early 1960s, Myftari worked as a journalist for the newspaper Zëri i Rinisë (voice of youth) . He started writing at a young age. In 1966, the League of Writers and Artists of Albania (Lidhja e Shkrimtarëve dhe Artistëve të Shqipërisë) accepted him as a member. In 1967 and 1969 his first short stories Fluturzat e borës (The Snow Butterflies ) and Mbrëmjet e qytetit tim (The Evenings of My City) appeared .

Bedri Myftari was president of the secret group of boys against the party's line in art and literature (Grupi i të rinjve kundër vijës së partisë në art dhe letërsi) at the time of the socialist dictatorship in Albania . Its members included Suzana Selenica , Bilal Xhaferri , Namik Mane , Zyhdi Morava , Faik Ballanca , Roland Gjoza , Kostandin Dhamo , Sadri Ahmeti and Ahmet Golemi . In 1968 the group was uncovered by the Albanian secret police Sigurimi : all of them were deprived of their publication rights for 20 years and Myftari was imprisoned.

After the democratic change in Albania in 1990/91 , Myftari was released from prison as part of an amnesty of radical change. He then worked as a journalist for the newspaper Kosova (Kosovo) , was the main editor of the newspaper Tribuna Demokratike (The Democratic Tribune) , at times the editor in charge of the Europe-wide newspaper Emigranti shqiptar (The Albanian Emigrant) and later the main editor of the newspaper Bota shqiptare (The Albanian World) and Çamëria . Myftari also worked with the magazines Drita (The Light) and Krahu i Shqiponjës (The Wing of the Eagle) , where he published journalistic and his own literary works.

Bedri Myftari died on November 8, 2013 at the age of 74 in Tirana.

Works (selection)

  • Fluturzat e borës . Stories, 1967.
  • Mbrëmjet e qytetit tim . Stories, 1969.
  • Kronikat e vdekjes . Roman, 1994.
  • Rojtari i varrezës . Roman, 1995.
  • Ti je Eva . Poems, 1996.
  • Dashuria e parë . Stories, 1997.
  • Pranverë që s'kthehet më . Poems, 1999.
  • Bardh e zi . Essay, 2000.
  • Dashuri fatal . Roman, 2000.
  • Përralla . Fairy tale, Tirana 2001.
  • Vajza e rojtarit të pyllit . Fairy tale, 2003.
  • Simfoni e erërave . Poems, 2005.
  • Zonja e ambasadorit . Amendment, 2006.
  • Vampiri . Roman, 2006.
  • Pas Kastadivës . Novel, 2007, ISBN 978-99956-07-3-6 .
  • E parathëna . Novel, 2008.
  • Eja në takim . Poems, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shuhet Bedri Myftari (Bedri Myftari is dead). In: Top Channel . November 9, 2013, accessed November 10, 2013 (Albanian).
personal data
SURNAME Myftari, Bedri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian writer, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Slave at Filiates , Greece
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2013
Place of death Tirana , Albania