Visar Zhiti

Visar Zhiti was born on 2 December 1952 in Durrës. His first poems appeared in reviews in the early seventies, but his first collection, judged contrary to socialist realism, led to his arrest in 1979 and a ten-year prison sentence; he served eight, notably in the copper mines of Spaç, and was released on 28 January 1987. A journalist on the first opposition newspaper, then a member of parliament and minister of culture, he became a diplomat, Albania's ambassador to the Holy See.

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• PoetryKujtesa e ajritVisar Zhiti · 1993not translated into EnglishLiterature