Gëzim Hajdari

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Gëzim Hajdari, 2011

Gëzim Hajdari (born February 25, 1957 in Lushnja ) is an Albanian writer and translator who has lived in Italy since 1992 .

Life

Gëzim Hajdari was born into a family of former large landowners whose lands had been confiscated during the communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha . He attended - after elementary and middle school - a commercial high school. He studied Albanian literature at the University of Aleksandër Xhuvani in Elbasan ; After emigrating to Italy, he graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome with a degree in modern Italian literature.

After the final fall of the communist regime in Albania, Hajdari was one of the founding members of two opposition parties, the Democratic Party and the Lushnjas Republican Party , in the winter of 1991, and he was elected provincial secretary. In the same year he founded the opposition weekly Ora e Fjalës with a friend , where he became deputy director. At the same time he wrote for the national newspaper Republika . In the elections in early 1992 he was run as a candidate for the Republican Party. In the course of his activities as a politician and exponent of the opposition, he repeatedly and publicly denounced the dark machinations of the old Hoxha nomenclature - as well as those of the regime operating behind the mask of post-communism. As a result of repeated massive threats, he was forced to leave his country in April 1992.

In Albania he had worked, among other things, as a worker in agriculture (for example in the drainage of swamp areas), as a warehouse worker and accountant. He did two years of military service. In the early 1990s he taught literature at a high school. In Italy he worked as a groom, farm worker, construction worker and in a printing company.

Since then he has been making a living as a freelance writer and translator. He writes in Albanian and Italian. Poems have been translated into several languages. Invitations from all over the world have taken him to many countries for readings and lectures, but not to Albania. There, his critical work is mostly ignored by the political and cultural society.

Gëzim Hajdari is President of the Centro Internazionale Eugenio Montale . Because of his literary merits, he was made an honorary citizen of his place of residence, Frosinone . Hajdari is counted among the most important contemporary poets and has received numerous literary awards.

Single track

Poetry

Books in Albania
  • Antologia e shiut . Naim Frashëri, Tirana 1990.
    Second edition in Italian: Antologia della pioggia . Fara, Santarcangelo di Romagna 2001. ISBN 9788887808087
  • Trup i pranishëm / Corpo presente . Botimet Dritëro, Tirana 1999 (bilingual Albanian / Italian)
    Second edition in Italian: Besa, Nardò 2011. ISBN 978-88-497-0733-5
  • Poezi të zgjedhura 1990-2007 . Besa, Nardò 2008. ISBN 978-88-497-0517-1
    Second edition in Italian: Poesie scelte (1990-2007) . Controluce, Nardò 2008. ISBN 978-88-628-0017-4
  • Genocidi i poezise shqipe . Mësonjëtorja, Tirana 2010. ISBN 978-99943-35-75-6
Books in Italy. Bilingual editions Italian / Albanian
  • Ombre di cane / Hije qeni . Dismisura, Frosinone 1993.
  • Sassi contro vento / Gurë kundër erës . Laboratorio delle Arti, Milan 1995.
  • Erbamara / Barihidhur . Fara, Santarcangelo di Romagna 2001. ISBN 9788887808339
  • Stigmate / Vragë . Besa, Nardò 2002. ISBN 9788849703924
  • Pace in parole migranti . Besa, Nardò 2003. ISBN 88-497-0204-3
  • Spine Nere / Gjëmba të zinj . Besa, Nardò 2004. ISBN 9788849703320
  • Maldiluna / Dhimbjehëne . Besa, Nardò 2005. ISBN 9788849703054
  • Poema dell'esilio / Poema e mërgimit , Fara, Santarcangelo di Romagna 2005. ISBN 9788887808766
  • Peligòrga / Peligorga . Besa, Nardò 2007. ISBN 9788849704563
German language edition
Travel reports

Anthologies (selection)

  • Luigi Manzi: Il Muschio e la pietra . Besa, Nardò 2004. ISBN 88-497-0244-2 .
  • I. Mehadheb, S. Mugno, Gëzim Hajdari (eds.): I canti della vita . Di Girolamo, Trapani 2008. ISBN 978-88-87778-20-5 .
  • Amoà Fatuiva, Gëzim Hajdari (Ed.): Dove le parole non si Spezzano . De Angelis Editore, Avellino 2011.

Awards

  • 1996: Ekse Tra (Rimini)
  • 1997: Montale (Rome)
  • 1999: Fratellanza nel mondo (Potenza)
  • 2000: Trieste EtniePoesie (Trieste)
  • 2000: Scritture di Frontiera - Umberto Saba (Trieste)
  • 2000: Dario Bellezza (Rome)
  • 2000: Grotteria (Reggio Calabria)
  • 2003: Ciociaria (Fiuggi)
  • 2005: Popoli in cammino (Milan)
  • 2006: Multietnicità (Rome)
  • 2007: Piccola Editoria di Qualità (Chiari)
  • 2011: Vittorio Bodini (Minervino Lecce)

literature

  • Poetry dell 'esilio. Saggi su Gëzim Hajdari, 330 pages, Cosmo Iannone Editore 2010, Andrea Gazzoni edition.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bilingual anthology, translation into Albanian
  2. ↑ Anthology on the Tunisian poet Abu al-Qasim asch-Shabbi
  3. ^ Bilingual anthology (Italian / English) on the Filipino poet Gémino H. Abad
personal data
SURNAME Hajdari, Gëzim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian poet, essayist, translator and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Lushnja