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    This document provides information on three famous people from Pogradec, Albania: 1. Lasgush Poradeci was an influential 20th century Albanian poet and writer known for his poetry collections inspired by Albanian traditions. He received his education in Monastir and Athens and translated many works into Albanian. 2. Mitrush Kuteli, born Dhimitër Pasko, was a well-known Albanian writer and literary critic considered a founder of modern Albanian prose. He was born in Pogradec and received education and worked in Romania before returning to Albania during World War II. 3. Luan Starova is an Albanian writer living in North

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    FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM POGRADEC

    LASGUSH PORADECI
    Llazar Sotir Gusho (27 December 1899 – 12 November 1987),
    commonly known by the pen name Lasgush Poradeci, was an
    Albanian philologist, poet, translator, writer and pioneer of modern
    Albanian literature. He is regarded as one of the most influential
    Albanian writers of the 20th century whose works are directly
    connected with Romanticism and Realism.

    Born in the small town of Pogradec on the Lake of Ohrid in


    Ottoman Albania , he completed his primary and secondary
    education in Monastir and Athens, and thus received his academic
    education at the universities of Bucharest and Graz. He developed
    and maintained close liaison with Asdreni, Ernest Koliqi, Gjergj
    Fishta and Mitrush Kuteli who all of them became among the most
    outstanding Albanian writers of that time.

    Poradeci is best remembered for his poetry collections Vallja e yjve and Ylli i zemrës inspired by
    the traditions and peculiarities of Albanian life. His style is characterised for its stylistic and
    technical achievement, its form and content as well as its engagement with nature, eroticism and
    philosophy. He notably translated several major English, French, German, Italian and Russian
    works into Albanian.

    MITRUSH KUTELI
    Dhimitër Pasko (13 September 1907 – 4 May 1967) was a well-
    known Albanian writer, literary critic and translator. Along
    with Ernest Koliqi he is considered as the founder of modern
    Albanian prose; in Albanian literature his pen name for which
    he gained fame was Mitrush Kuteli.

    Mitrush Kuteli was born Dhimitër Pasko in the town of


    Pogradec at the shores of Lake of Ohrid, son of Pandeli and
    Polikseni, his family might have been of non-Albanian origins,
    possibly Aromanian. He studied at a Romanian commercial
    college in Thessaloniki, later moving to Bucharest where, in
    1931, he graduated in economics with a dissertation on the
    banking system in the Balkans. And in 1934 he earned a
    doctorate on the field, evaluated with "Diplomam Magnam cum
    Laudæ".

    While in Bucharest he became a journalist and directed the Albanian-language weekly


    newspaper Shqipëri' e re (New Albania), published in Constanța, from 1928 until 1933. In 1937 he
    organized the publishing Lasgush Poradeci's collection of verse, Ylli i zemrës (The Star of the
    heart).

    From 1934 he was a high official of the Romanian Ministry of Economy and later on he was the
    director of the Cernăuți bank.

    He returned to Albania in 1942, and during World War II wrote and self-published most of his
    major works. At the end of the war he founded the short-lived literary periodical, Revista letrare
    (Literary Review), with Nexhat Hakiu, Vedat Kokona and Sterjo Spasse, joined the editorial board
    of Bota e re (New World), the first Albanian post-war literary journal, and became a founding
    member of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists.

    LUAN STAROVA
    Luan Arif Starova born 1941) is an Albanian writer who lives in North Macedonia. He has
    published his works both in Albanian and in Macedonian.

    Luan Starova was born in Pogradec, an Albanian town on Lake Ohrid, in 1941. His family had
    legal and scholarly background: his grandfather on the father's side had served as an Ottoman
    qadi in Prilep, before retiring and emigrating to Turkey; his father earned a law degree in
    Istanbul, and was a lawyer and a scholar. In 1943, when Luan was a small child, his family moved
    to Struga, then annexed by Albania, at the opposite end
    of Lake Ohrid from Pogradec, and after the WWII, they
    moved to Skopje, the capital of the new SR Macedonia.

    He grew up in Tito's Yugoslavia, and studied French


    language and literature at Skopje University (1960–1967).
    After graduation, he worked as a journalist, becoming in
    1968 the editor of Albanian programming on Television
    Skopje. However, in the same year he left for Zagreb to
    start his postgraduate studies Zagreb University. He
    earned a master's degree with a thesis on The Balkans in
    the Prose of Guillaume Apollinaire. When working for his
    doctoral degree in French and comparative literature
    (awarded 1978), he spent some time at Sorbonne, collecting materials on the collaboration of
    Apollinaire and the Albanian scholar and writer Faik Konitza. Later, he was to edit a book about
    these two writers.

    Starova worked as a professor of French literature at Skopje University, eventually serving as the
    chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literature.

    Since 1985, Starova also worked on a number of diplomatic posts in various European and Arab
    countries. After Republic of Macedonia became an independent state, Luan Starova was
    appointed as his country's first ambassador to France (1994); later he also served as the
    ambassador to Spain (1996) and Portugal.
    Luan Starova started writing novels in 1971. Several of Luan Starova's novels published since
    1992 form the so-called "Balkan Saga", where he explores the destinies of the people on both
    sides of the Albania-Macedonia border under three "Empires" - the Ottoman, the Fascist, and
    the Stalinist - through the story of his family.

    Luan Starova is also known as a translator of French literary works (e.g., poetry by André
    Frénaud) into both Albanian and Macedonian.

    Since 1972, Luan Starova participated in the organization of the annual Struga Poetry Evenings.

    In 2017 he was awarded the French legion of honor, rank officer.

    PUNOI: Erjona Dobra

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