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Andon Zako Çajupi

Died in 1930

Andon Zako was born on 27 March 1866 in Sheper, in Zagoria, in southern Albania. After the Greek school of his village, he learned French from 1882 with the Lazarists of Alexandria, then studied law in Geneva from 1887 to 1892 and practised for a few years in Switzerland. Settled in Egypt from 1894, he pleaded less and wrote more, and took part in the Albanian national movement. He wrote in Albanian and in French, rendered into Albanian fables by a French fabulist and Sanskrit poems, and died in Egypt in 1930.

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