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Petro Marko

Died in 1991

Petro Marko was born on 25 November 1913 in Dhërmi. A teacher and journalist, he edited the review ABC in 1936, banned by the royal regime, then joined the Garibaldi Battalion of the International Brigades in Spain. Interned by the Italians on Ustica during the war, a partisan in 1944 and editor-in-chief of Bashkimi, he was imprisoned by the communist regime from 1947 to 1950, and one of his books was banned in 1973. Regarded as one of the fathers of modern Albanian prose, he died in Tirana on 27 December 1991.

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