Filip Shiroka

Filip Shiroka was born on 3 August 1859 in Shkodra and was schooled by the Franciscans, where an Arbëresh poet awakened him to verse. He fought at Ulcinj in 1880 and, after the defeat of the League of Prizren, emigrated to the Near East. He lived in Egypt, then in Lebanon, where he worked as an engineer on the construction of the railways. He also signed as Geg Postrippa and Ulqinaku, and put liturgical texts into Albanian. He died in Beirut on 14 November 1935.

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• PoetryZani i zemrësFilip Shiroka · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature