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• ChronicleThe Siege of ShkodraDe obsidione ScodrensiMarin Barleti · 1504Shkodra, a Venetian city, in 1478 and 1479, when its citadel holds out for nearly a year against the Ottoman army.Literature
• PoetryKëngët e MilosaosJeronim de Rada · 1836not translated into EnglishShkodra in the fifteenth century, dreamed from Calabria by an Arbëresh student of the 1830s.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryFrashëri's Song of AlbaniaBagëti e BujqësiaNaim Frashëri · 1886Ottoman Albania in the 1880s, sung by an official posted far from his native village.Literature
• PoetryBaba TomorriAndon Zako Çajupi · 1902not translated into EnglishOttoman Albania at the turn of the twentieth century, called to awaken from Egypt by an émigré lawyer.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryËndrra e lotëAleksandër Stavre Drenova (Asdreni) · 1912not translated into EnglishThe Albanian colonies of Bucharest in 1912, a few months before an independence being prepared from abroad.Literature
• PoetryJuveniliaNdre Mjeda · 1917not translated into EnglishNorthern Albania at the beginning of the twentieth century, when a priest from Shkodra gives the Gheg language a classical form.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeDoktor GjilpëraFaik Konica · 1924not translated into EnglishAlbania from 1920 to 1924, seen from Boston by an exile who denounces its murders.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryVjershaZef Serembe · 1926not translated into EnglishArbëreshë Calabria in the nineteenth century, where a wandering poet sings of a homeland he has never seen.Literature
• Short storiesHija e maleveErnest Koliqi · 1929not translated into EnglishNorthern Albania after the Great War, where young scholars returned from Italy find a country in which the Kanun governs honour, bloodshed and alliances.Literature
• PoetryVallja e yjeveLasgush Poradeci · 1933not translated into EnglishThe shore of Pogradec, sung in the thirties by a student from Graz.Literature
• PoetryZani i zemrësFilip Shiroka · 1933not translated into EnglishThe Levant of the late nineteenth century, where an exiled engineer writes for a country he has left.Literature
• NovelWhy?!Nga jeta në jetë, Pse?!Sterjo Spasse · 1935Albania in the thirties, where young people educated in the city clash with the family customs of their villages.Literature
• PoetryFree VerseVargjet e liraMigjeni · 1936Shkodra and the poor villages of northern Albania in the thirties, under a regime that censors what is printed.LiteraturePublic domain
• EpicThe Highland LuteLahuta e MalcísGjergj Fishta · 1937The mountains of northern Albania and the Montenegrin border from 1858 to 1913, where the clans defend their lands.LiteraturePublic domain
• EpicSongs of the Frontier WarriorsKëngë kreshnikëshAnonymous · 1937The mountains of northern Albania, where bards recited these songs from memory, accompanying themselves on the lahuta.Literature
• Short storiesNetë shqiptareMitrush Kuteli · 1938not translated into EnglishThe countryside around Pogradec, seen again from afar by a native of the region who left to study and work in Romania.Literature
• PoetryAlbumiFan Noli · 1948not translated into EnglishAlbanian emigration from America after 1924, where the defeated print what the country can no longer read.Literature
• Feature filmSkanderbegSkënderbeuSergei Yutkevich · 1953Fifteenth-century Albania facing the Ottoman Empire, told in the early fifties by a film that Tirana had commissioned from Moscow.Cinema
• Feature filmTanaKristaq Dhamo · 1958An Albanian village of the fifties, between the cooperative being set up and the ideas of the elders.Cinema
• NovelHasta la vistaPetro Marko · 1958not translated into EnglishThe Spanish conflict seen by an Albanian who fought in it, and a love born amid the fighting.Literature
• Feature filmDebatikHysen Hakani · 1961Albania in 1942, under Italian occupation, seen at the level of the children who join the resistance.Cinema
• NovelThe General of the Dead ArmyGjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekurIsmail Kadare · 1963Albania in the early sixties, less than twenty years after the Italian occupation.Literature
• NovelLumi i vdekurJakov Xoxa · 1965not translated into EnglishPeasants driven from their land and rivers in flood: the great fresco of the Myzeqe before the war.Literature
• PoetryMë jepni një emërFatos Arapi · 1972not translated into EnglishAlbania in the early seventies, just before the purges of 1973 that struck writers turned towards modernity.Literature
• Feature filmThe CaptainKapedaniMuharrem Fejzo and Fehmi Hoshafi · 1972Rural Albania in the early seventies, at the moment when the promotion of women to positions of command clashes with the authority of the war elders.Cinema
• NovelShkëlqimi dhe rënia e shokut ZyloDritëro Agolli · 1973not translated into EnglishAlbania of offices, meetings and reports signed by others, in the early seventies.Literature
• Feature filmBeni Walks on His OwnBeni ecën vetëXhanfize Keko · 1975A family from Korça in the mid-seventies, and the Albanian countryside as the place where a city child learns to do without his own people.Cinema
• Short filmZana and MiriZana dhe MiriVlash Droboniku · 1975A kindergarten in Albania in the seventies, seen from the height of two small ball players.Cinema
• Feature filmFace to FaceBallë për ballëPiro Milkani and Kujtim Çashku · 1979Albania in 1961, when the break with the Soviet Union plays out in a conference room in Moscow and at an anchorage on the Adriatic.Cinema
• PoetryGjuha e bukësGiuseppe Schirò Di Maggio · 1981not translated into EnglishThe Arbëresh villages of Sicily in the time of departures for work, when the inherited language no longer feeds those who speak it.Literature
• PoetryDranjaMartin Camaj · 1981not translated into EnglishThe exile of an Albanian writer in Bavaria, who paints himself in the guise of a beast shut inside its shell.Literature
• CinemaAgimet e stinës së madheAlbert Minga · 1981The first postwar years in Albania, when the regime taking hold settles scores by force of arms with the classes it overthrows.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Distant TimesKohë e largëtSpartak Pecani · 1983Medieval Albania of the icon painters, under the twofold pressure of the occupiers and the clergy.Cinema
• Feature filmAppassionataApasionataKristaq Mitro and Ibrahim Muçaj · 1983The art school in Tirana at the beginning of the eighties: two students, and a well-placed father who has chosen his son's profession.Cinema
• PoetryNesër jam atyXhevahir Spahiu · 1987not translated into EnglishThe Skrapar, beneath Mount Tomorr, in the late eighties, seen by a poet who returns to the village of his childhood.Literature
• Feature filmA Tale from the PastPërrallë nga e kaluaraDhimitër Anagnosti · 1987The Albanian countryside before the war, where children are married off according to custom, without being consulted.Cinema
• Feature filmStrings for a ViolinTela për violinëBujar Kapexhiu · 1987The last decade of the Albanian regime, the entrance exam for the fine arts school, and a father who does not believe in it.Cinema
• NovelThe LoserI humburiFatos Kongoli · 1992A man who did not take the boat tells his life as a loser: the great Albanian novel of the post-dictatorship years.Literature
• PoetryKujtesa e ajritVisar Zhiti · 1993not translated into EnglishPoems composed from memory at the bottom of a prison mine, saved by fellow prisoners and a family.Literature

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