Albanian-English Conversations: Bashkebisedime Shqip-Anglisht
Çezar Kurti was born in 1935. After completing his studies in Russian philology and in Law, he worked for many years as a journalist and then as the professor of Russian language and Albanian Stilistique at the University of Tirana, where he became the Chairman of the Russian Department.   He is a prolific writer and translator. His works include Morphology and Syntax of Russian language (1972), English-Albanian Polytechnical Vocabulary (co-author, 1992), Learn Albanian (1996), Albanian-English Conversations (1987) Ucitesj Albanskomu Jaziku (2006).  Ç. Kurti has also translated many works of world literature into Albanian, like Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars, Shakespeare's Sonnets (1993), F. Dostoyevsky's Records from the House of the Dead (1994), Schallamov's The novels of Colyma (1995), Dante's Inferno (1996), Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (2004) etc. In 1989 he edited Tolstoy's War and Peace in Albanian.  As a journalist he has written many articles on the state of politics in Albania.