Pjetër Arbnori

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Pjetër Arbnori (actually Filip Toma ; born January 18, 1935 in Shkodra , † July 8, 2006 in Naples ) was an Albanian writer and politician. Arbnori spent more than 28 years as an opponent of the regime in the prisons of socialist Albania. In 1989/90 he was one of the leaders of the democracy movement that brought about the end of socialist rule .

Life

In 1953 Pjetër Arbnori began working as a teacher, but in 1954 he was dismissed for political reasons. After that he worked as a farm worker for a few years. He was later allowed to take up a distance learning course at the Philological Faculty of the University of Tirana , which he graduated as a literary scholar in 1960.

In the same year, Pjetër Arbnori was targeted by the Sigurimi secret police . He was sentenced to death in 1961 for attempting to form a social democratic group. The sentence was toned down to a long prison sentence. Arbnori spent 28 years in Burrel Detention Center . There was part of his literary work, which he wrote under the most difficult conditions with hidden pencil stubs on the margins of newspaper pages. Some of these manuscripts could be smuggled out of prison during visits by relatives, others were discovered by the guards and burned.

Arbnori was released in August 1989. From January 1990 he took part in the uprising against the socialist dictatorship in his hometown Shkodra . In the same year he was a co-founder of the Democratic Party of Albania . From 1991 to 2001 he was a member of the Albanian Parliament ; 1992–1997 he was President of Parliament and thus one of the few politically persecuted Albania who received a high office after reunification.

Pjetër Arbnori died of a heart condition when he was treated for it in Italy . He was married and had two children.

Honor

In the Albanian capital Tirana , an international cultural center was named after Pjetër Arbnori.

Works

  • Nga jeta në burgjet komuniste. (From life in communist prisons, experience report, also published in German 1992)
  • Kur dynden vikingët. (Novella, 1992)
  • Mugujt e mesjetës. (Novel, 1993)
  • Bukuroshja me hijen. (Novella, 1994)
  • Lettre de prison. (1995)
  • E bardha dhe e zeza. (Novel, 1995)
  • E panjohura - Vdekja e Gebelsit. (Novella, 1996)
  • Shtëpia e mbetur përgjysmë. (Novel, printed 1997, written for ten years in prison and grounds for an additional ten year prison sentence)
  • Vorbulla. (Novel, 1997)
  • I survived and I wrote. In: Werner Daum (editor): Albania - between cross and crescent. Pinguin Verlag, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-7016-2461-5 .
  • Brajtoni, një vetëtimë e largët. (Novel, 2000)
  • Martirët e rinj në Shqipëri. 10300 ditë e net në burgjet komuniste. (2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pjetër Arbënori: Memories of the German priest Alfons Tracky . In: Werner Daum , State Museum for Ethnology, Munich (ed.): Albania. Between the cross and the crescent . Pinguin, Munich / Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-7016-2461-5 , p. 167-171 .
personal data
SURNAME Arbnori, Pjetër
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toma, Filip (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Shkodra
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2006
Place of death Naples