Kënga shqiptare: 1

by Kasëm Trebeshina

Roman: Bleu 1

343 pages

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

Kasëm Trebeshina is an Albanian writer and dissident. Kasëm was born in Berat, Albania on 5 August 1926. He finishes elementary education in his birthplace and continues high-school in Elbasan. In the year of 1942 he joins the military in the National-Liberation war during which he was injured and had to stop his education temporarily. Kasëm was one of the voices of dissent during the post-World War II era in Communist Albania, voice which got him arrested three times and even falsely proclaimed by the oppressive regime as a madman. Kasëm has spent 17 years in prison.

All the oppressions Kasëm faced during his lifetime would fuel, influence and affect his literary work. After the infamous 1997 riot in Albania Kasëm flees from Albania and migrates to Istanbul, Turkey where he lived until he died in 2017.

His novell "Odin Mondvalsen" has been translated into German by Hans-Joachim Lanksch, published in Klagenfurt Austria in 1994. Most of his work was published after the fall of Communism, during the 1990s, which made him free to express his ideas in his works