Call Me By My Name
Subtitle: Poetry from Kosova in a bilingual Albanian-English edition
Publisher: Gjonlekaj Pub. Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; alb
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781891654084
Description: On 20 April 1999, Flora Brovina was abducted by eight masked Serb paramilitaries from the home she was staying in and was driven off by car to an initially unknown destination. She was thus in captivity as NATO forces approached the capital and as Serb troops began their withdrawal from the country and, as a result, was taken to Serbia as a hostage, along with several thousand other Kosova Albanians. The first news of her abduction broke on 24 April 1999 when her son managed to contact the international writers' association, PEN, with an urgent appeal that the news of her abduction be made known as widely as possible.

Brovina was transferred to a Serb prison in Pozharevac and, in her first month of detention, was subjected to over 200 hours of interrogation in 18 separate sessions lasting typically from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M.