Fatos Lubonja

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Fatos Lubonja (2009)

Fatos Lubonja (* 1951 in Tirana ) is an Albanian author and dissident .

Life

Fatos Lubonja is the son of Todi Lubonja , who was a close confidante of the former dictator Enver Hoxha and head of Albanian television until the early 1970s . Todi Lubonja was imprisoned in 1973 as a result of political cleansing against “decadent Western influences” in the culture, which was based on the Chinese Cultural Revolution . Fatos, who was studying physics in Tirana at the time , was also arrested when he was found in a diary with statements critical of Hoxha.

Fatos Lubonja was sentenced to five years in prison in 1974. There he was accused of belonging to a pro-Soviet group and his detention was extended for 20 years. After 13 years in a labor camp in Spaç , he was transferred to solitary confinement during which he wrote a novel - on cigarette paper - and corresponded with Bashkim Shehu , son of Mehmet Shehu . They hid the letters in the back of a dictionary. His novel The Last Carnage is a settlement with communism under Hoxha. After 17 years in prison, Fatos Lubonja was released in 1991.

Today he is considered an outspoken critic of the Albanian governments ( Sali Berisha in particular), the Albanian political society in general and the world-famous writer Ismail Kadare . He is the editor of the literary magazine Përpjekja ("Endeavor") in Tirana, where he also lives. He has published several novels and essays and writes critical articles for newspapers, including Panorama . Every other day, the show Corner of Lubonja (Këndi i Lubonjës) was broadcast on Agon Channel , where he commented on current political and social developments.

In 2004 Fatos Lubonja was awarded the Herder Prize for Literature.

Works (selection)

  • Në vitin e shtatëmbëdhjetë (In the seventeenth year) . 1994
  • Ploja e mbrame (The Final Desolation) . 1994
  • Ridënimi (The Punishment) . 1996
  • Trashëgimia kulturore e Shqipërisë në rrezik (The cultural heritage of Albania in danger) . 1999
  • Nëntëdhjeteshtata - Apokalipsi i rremë (The Seventy-ninth - The False Apocalypse) . 2010. ISBN 978-99956-037-3-1 .
  • Second sentence: Inside the Albanian Gulag . IB Tauris, London 2009. ISBN 978-1-84511-924-9 .

Awards

  • 2002: Alberto Moravia Prize
  • 2004: Herder Prize for Literature

Web links

Commons : Fatos Lubonja  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernard A. Cook (2001): Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, Garland Publishing, New Orleans 2001, 2nd volume, p. 797. Retrieved November 17, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c kulturama.org (January 5, 2010): The decreed turning point. Retrieved November 17, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Anita Niegelhell, Gabriele Ponisch: We are always in fire , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99290-3
  4. ↑ Christine von Kohl: Albanien , Beck'sche series countries, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-39872-3
personal data
SURNAME Lubonja, Fatos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lubonja, Fatos T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian writer and dissident
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirana