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Migjeni (Milosh Gjegj Nikolla)
(1911—1938)

The most famous writer from Shkodra is the poet and novelist Migjeni (Milosh Gjegj Nikolla). Born in an Orthodox family, he studied in Bar (Montenegro) and Bitola (Macedonia). Back to Shkodra in 1932, he became a school teacher. He died from tuberculosis in an Italian sanatorium on 26 August 1938. Migjeni's only volume of verse, Vargjet e lira (Free verse), was composed over a three-year period from 1933 to 1935. A first edition of this slender and yet revolutionary collection, a total of thirty-five poems, was printed by the Gutemberg Press in Tirana in 1936 but was immediately banned by the authorities and never circulated. The second edition was released only in 1944. The main theme of the Free verse and of Migjeni's prose, is misery and suffering. Though he did not publish a single book during his lifetime, Migjeni's works, which circulated privately and in the press of the period, were an immediate success. Migjeni paved the way for a modern literature in Albania. His series of short stories entitled Tregimet nga qyteti i Veriut (Chronicles of a Northern City) gives a vivid description of Shkodra under Zogu's feudal regime, insisting on prostitution, something which was then completely taboo in Albania.

Albania, 1961, Migjeni

Albania, 1961, Migjeni

Albania, 1988, Migjeni

Macedonia, 2011, Migjeni