Lindita Arapi

Lindita Arapi (* 1972 in Lushnja ) is an Albanian writer and journalist . The author , who lives in Germany , has been publishing a number of volumes of poetry since the late 1990s and, in 2010, presented her first novel with Schlüsselmaiden , which was awarded the KULT book prize as Book of the Year in Albania in 2011 .

Life

Arapi studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Tirana from 1990 to 1994 . In 1993 Arapi published a first volume of poems. In 1996 she moved to Germany, where she studied German in Cologne. In the same year she received an author's grant from the Heinrich Böll Foundation . This was followed by a doctorate in journalism at the University of Vienna , in which she dealt with the image of Albania in the German-speaking area generated by press and book publications. Her first novel was published in 2010. She also translated some German-language texts into Albanian, including poems by Günter Grass , Joseph Roth , Elias Canetti and Felicitas Hoppe .

Arapi works as a journalist for the Albanian program of Deutsche Welle . Arapi is married and has two daughters. She lives with her family in Bonn .

Works

• Kufomë lulesh . Poetry (1993)
• Ndodhi në shpirt . Poetry (1995)
• Melodi te heshtjes . Poetry (1998)
• How Albania became Albanian. Reconstruction of a picture of Albania . Dissertation, Vienna 2001; Book publication: Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-8288-8918-2
• Shenjat e dorës . Poetry (2006)
• By the sea, at night . Poetry (2007) ISBN 3-900986-65-7
• Vajzat me çelës . Roman (2010), German key girl . Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937717-85-2
• Europe - always better than us . Essay at Perlentaucher , September 16, 2012
• Selected poems in German . Published in the online magazine Transcript

Translations (selection)

• Josef Luitpold Stern : Mbrëmje shqiptare. Tregime me temë shqiptare . (German Albanian Evening. Essays with Albanian Themes )
• Joseph Roth : Udhëtim nëpër Shqipëri 1927 . (German trip through Albania 1927 , article)
• Arian Leka : One book, one sea . Poems. (alb. Libër deti .) Ottensheim an der Donau 2007 ISBN 978-3-900986-65-0

swell

• Information from the «Traduki» translator network on Lindita Arapi (PDF; 151 kB)
• Claudia Kramatschek: traitors and tolerated people . Key Girl Review. Deutschlandradio Kultur, September 19, 2012
• Biography on the website of the "International Literature Festival Berlin"
• Insa Wilske: Të mësosh të marrësh frymë. In: «Shekulli» of October 29, 2012
• Lindita Arapi: Vetësiguria e një femre fillon aty ku fillon siguria financiare . Interview, in: «Shekulli» from December 1, 2012