As a poet, Lulzim Tafa belongs to the generation of poets of the nineties, when wars broke out as following the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. He started writing poetry as a primary school student. His first poems were published in school literary magazines. His first book of poetry was published while a university student. During the 1999 war in Kosovo, he was in Kosovo when all of his possessions were burnt down with his family house, including his library, his pictures and memories, and most notably over 300 poems in manuscript.