16 Facts About Lasgush Poradeci

Lasgush Poradeci is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century whose works are directly connected with Romanticism and Realism.

Lasgush Poradeci developed and maintained close liaison with Asdreni, Ernest Koliqi, Gjergj Fishta and Mitrush Kuteli, all of whom became amongst the most outstanding Albanian writers of that time.

Lasgush Poradeci's style is characterised for its stylistic and technical achievement, its form and content as well as its engagement with nature, eroticism and philosophy.

Lasgush Poradeci notably translated several major English, French, German, Italian and Russian works into Albanian.

Lasgush Poradeci was born on 27 December 1899 in the town of Pogradec at the western coast of the Lake of Ohrid in what was then part of the Ottoman Empire, now Republic of Albania.

Lasgush Poradeci therefore attended the French Lycee Leonin in Athens until 1920.

Lasgush Poradeci immediately left for Berlin, where he hoped to study under Albanologist Norbert Jokl, and continued on to the University of Graz whereas he attended the Faculty of Romano-German philology and finished a doctorate there in 1933.

Lasgush Poradeci voluntarily returned to Albania the following year to teach arts at a secondary school in Tirana.

Lasgush Poradeci lived with his wife in Tirana on the latter's meagre salary as a teacher.

Lasgush Poradeci died in poverty at his home in Tirana on 12 November 1987.

Lasgush Poradeci was undoubtedly fascinated by the aesthetics of nature.

Lasgush Poradeci further divided poetry between landscape poems, love poems and philosophical poems while all his poems are essentially meditative-philosophical.

Lasgush Poradeci composed two extraordinary collections of poetry including Vallja e yjve and Ylli i zemres both published in Romania in 1933 and 1937 respectively.

Lasgush Poradeci's poetry is far away from being Romantic and engaging compared to the poetry of the Albanian Renaissance.

The entire work that Lasgush Poradeci made was all about Pogradec, his birthplace.

Lasgush Poradeci was active in translating several notable international literary works into the Albanian language.