Author: Ardian-Christian Kycyku
Alternate names: Ardian-Christian Kuciuk (in Romanian language)
Born: 23 August 1969
Bio: **ARDIAN KYÇYKU** - Pen names: Ardian-Christian Kyçyku / Kuciuk, writer of Albanian and Romanian expression, essayist, editor and translator born on the 23rd of August 1969, Pogradec, Albania. Bachelor of Arts at the Tirana University (Albania), Faculty of History and Philology (1991); Doctor in Comparative and Universal Literature at the Bucharest University - "*Trends in European Modernism and Their Influences on Albanian In-Between-Wars Literature*"; Doctor-ship at the Faculty of Theology at the Bucharest University - "*The Relationship Between God and Cosmos in the Monotheistic Religions*"; Docent in Human and Communication Sciences; since March 2012 he is the Rector of the Romanian University of Science and Art “Gheorghe Cristea” in Bucharest. 
Since 1998: co-founder and co-director of bilingual European magazine for culture and traditions "Haemus", which first appeared in Bucharest in 1998 and now has an archive of over 4000 pages with fragments from the work of over 200 writers, thinkers and European intellectuals; also, Haemus dedicated special editions to the Greek, Turkish, Italian, Swiss and Jewish cultures and civilizations and to the Albanian and Romanian exile. 
Editor-en-Chief and founder of “ComunIQue” magazine. He is Full member of the Writers Union of Romania, full member of the Writers Union of Albania, full member of Académie Européenne des Arts, and a Correspondent member of Central European Academy of Science and Art. 
Member of the Writers Association in Bucharest, founding member of the Albanian Cultural Association “Haemus”.
Books written and published in Albanian: *In the stone’s empire*, novel, *The Dead Folk*, novel, *Night After Year Zero*, novel, *Muse of the Game*, trilogy, *The Translation or the Life of a Slave that does not Swear He Can See*, novel, *Rivers of Sahara*, novel, *The Appetite for Heaven Bread*, novel, *Diva or Flowers Devorator*, novel, *Useless Angels*, novel, *The Crystal and the hyenas*, novel, *Eyes*, novel, *The conquest of Crazystan*, prosa, *Instead of Eternity*, theatre, *Home*, novel, *Ki$land or Kiss Me You, Skeleton*, *The viceBook*, theater, *The Neutral Blood*, theatre, *Father*, novel, *Your Excellency*, theater / Books written and published in Romanian: *The year in which the Swan was Invented*, novel, *The Sweet Secret of Craziness*, novel, *A Glorious and Dying Tribe - The Saga of a Forgotten*, *Love at the Last Sight*, prose and theatre, *Epigone Godness*, novel-essay, *Trilogy*, anthological volume, *An alphabet of Albanian poetry* (anthology, 101 Albanian poets in Romanian), *Time of the Substitutes*, interview, *Siege – a novel with a few quotation marks*, *Ex – novel with love & conspiracy*; *Introduction into Semiotics*, T*he Signs and the Citadel* - university lectures, *Empatycon or The Book of Untimely Life*, novel, *Space for a single doll, - an movie to be narrated / a story to be filmed*, *Sky in an envelope - an movie to be narrated / a story to be filmed*

Many of Kyçyku's literary works are translated into Hungarian, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian.

www.akycyku.com