Dritëro Agolli

Dritëro Agolli was born on 13 October 1931 in Menkulas, in the Devoll district, into a Bektashi peasant family. He finished secondary school in Gjirokastër in 1952, then studied at the faculty of letters of the University of Leningrad. Back in Albania, he worked for some fifteen years at the party daily. He made his debut in poetry in 1958, before turning to the novel, the short story and the theatre. He later sat as a deputy in the Albanian parliament. He died of a lung disease in Tirana on 3 February 2017.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelShkëlqimi dhe rënia e shokut ZyloDritëro Agolli · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature