Poetry
Bebëzat e mallit
Not translated into English
Enver Gjerqeku · 1960
Synopsis
The first collection by Enver Gjerqeku, published by Rilindja in Pristina. The poems are not described; critics regard their author as one of the masters of the Albanian sonnet, alongside Mjeda and Asdreni, and recall the place that his crown of sonnets holds in the literature of Kosovo. His poetry, published in journals since 1946, has been included in almost all anthologies.
Context
The collection was reissued in 1968. Its author had been publishing since 1946 in Zani i rinisë, Rilindja and Jeta e re, journals of which he was one of the editors, and he later compiled anthologies of Albanian poetry from Yugoslavia with Esad Mekuli. His poems have been translated into Serbo-Croatian and appear in anthologies published in Belgrade, Zagreb and Tirana, as well as in a French anthology of 1979, La Solitude d'une branche.
Who it is for
Poems in Albanian, with no French translation; a few appear in anthologies.
Prizes and reception
He is counted among the great sonnet writers in the Albanian language; he received the Aleksa Šantić Prize of Mostar in 1979.