Agron Tufa

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Language: albanian

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Tek-tuk merr fund me ujëra e drunj
fytyra jote e thërrmuar ndër valë.

Nga grykat e maleve si me sëpatë
rrëzohen zanoret e një brenge të gjatë.

I shpleksa damarët të pijnë buzë lumit
dhe fundin “s’më deshe” e ngushëlloftë gjumi!

Harrimi punon pa ngjyra në linjë
me një dhimbje bjonde të mpiksur në brinjë.

Me qumësht e dritë përvëlon si rrëshirë
fytyra që buzë s’më dha për të pirë.

Avitet dëbora si shpirt. S’pipëtin.
Nuk derdhem nga got’ e mpirë që rrëzëllin.

Rrotullomë në ëndjen e ngrirë të gotës
o paqe e fytyrës së prapme të tokës!

Agron Tufa

photo © Elvana Zaimi

* 01.04.1967, Tirana, Albania
lives in: Dibra, Albania

Agron Tufa (born in 1967 in Sohodoll, Dibra, Albania) is a poet and writer and one of the best-known members of the Albanian literary scene. He started his working life as a coal miner. In 1989 he won a nationwide literary contest with a poem cycle that was published in the newspaper Voice of Youth. Following the collapse of Communism in Albania he was a village schoolteacher for a year until being accepted as a student by the Philology Faculty at the University of Tirana in 1991 on the recommendation of the Albanian Association of Writers and Artists. While there he founded with other young poets the group E për7shme. He was also editor-in-chief of Voice of Youth from 1992 to 1994. After graduating he studied literature and then translation at Gorki Institute in Moscow, Russia.

photo © Elvana Zaimi

As well as his writing and academic work, Agron Tufa is also a relentless translator, mainly of Russian poets, prose authors, philosophers and philologists. He has received many prizes and awards for his work at home and abroad, including in 2009 the Great National Prize for Literature of the Republic of Albania, his country’s most important award for literature. He is actually executive director of the Institute for Studies of Communist Crimes and Consequences in Tirana, and also professor of XX Century Literature at the University of Tirana.

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