birth_date: 1967-04-01 00:00:00
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name: Agron Tufa
about: After studying literature at University of Tirana, he finished his graduate studies at Gorky Institute, Moscow. He postgraduated in Arts Philosophy and Translation Theory at The Institute of European Cultures in Moscow.During more than 20 years of creativity, he has published poetry collections, such as At Scaean Gates, Atlantis environments, Vanguard of Angels, Spirit upon waters, Footprints along the stream; novels, such as The duel, Fabula Rasa, Black Wednesday, The pot; essays: Janus of hundred faces, Mnemosyne’s howl and has translated the most outstanding Russian and other poets and writers, such as Osip Mandelstam, Joseph Brodsky, Olga Sedakova, Boris Pasternak, Andrei Platonov, Danil Harms, Lotman, Vladimir Propp, Tolstoy, etc. He After studying literature at University of Tirana, he finished his graduate studies at Gorky Institute, Moscow. He postgraduated in Arts Philosophy and Translation Theory at The Institute of European Cultures in Moscow.During more than 20 years of creativity, he has published poetry collections, such as At Scaean Gates, Atlantis environments, Vanguard of Angels, Spirit upon waters, Footprints along the stream; novels, such as The duel, Fabula Rasa, Black Wednesday, The pot; essays: Janus of hundred faces, Mnemosyne’s howl and has translated the most outstanding Russian and other poets and writers, such as Osip Mandelstam, Joseph Brodsky, Olga Sedakova, Boris Pasternak, Andrei Platonov, Danil Harms, Lotman, Vladimir Propp, Tolstoy, etc. He is awarded with many national and international prizes, He was awarded The Silver Quill Award for his best novel Fabula Rasa. In 2009 he won The Albanian National Book Award. His poems are translated into English, French, German, Italian, Slovene, Spanish, Macedonian, Russian, Romanian, Polish, etc.Agron Tufa, Ph.D., now lectures Translation Theory, Modern Literature of XX-th Century and East European Literatures at Tirana University.Tufa is also Executive Director of the Institute for the Communist Crimes, in Tirana. ...more