BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
Engj\u00ebll I. Berisha, was born on June 17, 1962 in Korenice, District of Gjakova. During
\nhis studies in Albanian Language and Literature in Prishtina, he published extensively on
\nperiodicals since 1985 and since then continued to write articles for many years.
\nPublished his first book in 1990 while continuing with the publication of his four poetry
\nvolumes. In 1993, established the Literary Magazine \u201cLitterature Magazine\u201d while serving as its
\nmanaging editor. Has participated in the assigned sections of culture in almost every newspaper
\npublished in Kosova, where as in 1995-1999, worked as a journalist in the daily newspaper,
\n\u201cBota Sot\u201d and in the weekly magazine, \u201cEurozeri\u201d.<\/p>\n
In 1997 in the traditional conferences of Gje\u00e7ovi, earned the annual prize for best poetry.
\nIn 2002, at the conference of poetry, won the prize of \u201cpoetry gathering\u201d with his book entitled:
\n\u201c\u00c7ati eshtrash\u201d.
\nIn December 2006, from the Art Club of La\u00e7, won the \u201cSerembe\u201d literary prize on poetry with
\nhis book, \u201cDrunken memory;\u201d Which has been included in the anthology: \u201cFor whom are you
\nfatherland\u201d, written by Ali Podrimja.
\nDuring the last war of Kosova, in the last massacre known as the Massacre of \u201cMej\u00ebs e
\nKorenic\u00ebs\u201d both of his brothers and uncle were killed, his house was burned including his library
\ncontaining more than three thousand books. Therefore all his manuscripts and publications were
\nburned. This is the reason why this collection of poetry is being republished; containing the first
\nburned volumes and other works written on the topic of war that he experienced.<\/p>\n
Berisha, is the founder and managing editor of the journal on those who disappeared during the
\nwar: \u201cApril 27\u201d.
\nSince 2005 is the chairman of the Literary Club \u201cGjon Nikolle Kazazi, in Gjakova.
\nWorks and is the director of regional \u201cIbrahim Rugova\u201d library in Gjakova since 2000.<\/p>\n
ENGJELL I. BERISHA: A WRITER OF
\nSIMPLE INNOVATIONS AND COURAGE
\n\u2013 REVIEW<\/p>\n
Book review on \u201cA day With a Moon and Bride\u201d, published by Gjon Buzuku Press
\n(1991), Prishtina, Kosovo.
\nPoetry as a genre, not only as a drama but also as heroic, demands its coherence, time.
\nTime of poetry exists. In Albanian literature there are four centuries influenced by poetry
\nas a clear and individualized genre. Berisha\u2019s poetry has its influence over the
\nunattractive genres of drama, novel, essay, and treatise. Why? Due to the fact that his
\npoetry in its wideness and depth and in its preferred signs is the work of a creative
\nAlbanian poet, shows a familiarity and \u201cability\u201d over all \u201cto speak\u201d through characters
\nthat create perfectly shaped characters and figures.
\nFigurative language, poetry, was although an alibi and a greater space to express the
\nreasons and motives of modernity, predominantly the societal current status, at least
\nmore than it demanded to express the drama of an individual, even if it may a lyrical
\napproach, an intimate world of individual particularities, although Albanian poetry in the
\nlast four decades was not restrained from this traditional nature of a poetry as a genre.<\/p>\n
In a \u201csimple\u201d innovation that was promised by a contemporary poetic genre, it became
\nattractive for many more poets (perhaps we can say) even for three or four more young
\ngenerations of writers, in which Engjell Berisha plays a critical role, who gave priority to
\nsuch a genre even more important than dramas and novels. First of all, because the
\n\u201csoftness of creation\u201d was speculated in what was called as the Licentia Poetica, in the
\nborderless freedom \u201cof maneuvering\u201d in style and linguistics, \u201ca maneuvering\u201d that could
\nnot go through the traditional critical analysis, therefore from this creative speculation,
\nexcept only a few names who for a half a century became famous writers of great
\ninnovation and left behind a genuine literary work, on the spot light emerged also a
\nsignificant number of new \u201cpoets\u201d.
\nA conviction that anyone can write poetry (in a literature where contemporary novels
\nand plays are missing), and its impossibility to become the certification of its value
\nduring its created time, steadily it brought a great loss towards loosing its prestige of
\nbeing the queen of genres, not to say that it is loosing its readers, or better said the
\nreader would be searching for the writer and not for poetry. This made the author a
\ndefender of poetry and made him a principal player to not have poetry create its
\nsuperiority against the other genres. Therefore in Albanian Literature are welcomed with
\ngreat interest other genres such as Essays, Novel, Drama, since this style of writing
\nleaves less possibility for a speculative nature.
\nThe poetry of Engj\u00ebll I. Berisha is part of the youngest generation of our writers, the
\nyoungest among the young. It is distinguished with new language style which is different
\nfrom the standard unreformed school which derives from the teaching of its previous
\ngeneration, the poetry that demands cohesion that imposes its reasons, the objection to
\nbe accurate and constantly marked only to express more lucidly possible and clearly
\nany subject.
\nAs a consequence, the poetry of Engj\u00ebll I. Berisha uncovers a new poetical image, and
\nthis is his greatest value: the intimate world that would not be transparent from a reality,
\nthe world that seems it is shrinking in the intimacy of this poet, to express from his
\nverses the whole drama of a day, coherence. Berisha is exemplified as a poet who
\ndoesn\u2019t want to participate in the philharmonic orchestra of those figures that have been
\ndigested and re-digested on the contents of poetical motives. Especially because it is a
\nparticular voice and a rare character of a creative individual, his first book is also a
\nguarantee that we keep in our hands the first volume of a prosperous writing career.<\/p>\n
This would be the first reason of a publisher: the possibility that ought to be given to
\nthose that have not had a chance to be part of a deception emerging from creativity,
\ndifficulties that erupt relatively from a \u201ccreative time\u201d. Since this is the first book of
\nEngj\u00ebll I. Berisha; the poetry of this book will represent him genuinely rather than these
\nfew words.<\/p>\n
Bill Wolak
\nThe poetry of ENGJ\u00cbLL I. BERISHA weaves images together like sunlight tightening around the
\nshadows at noon. His poetry welcomes the reader to a quiet room where love and leaving are discussed in
\nhushed tones. What matters most in these poems is the transient touch of a hand, a last look, or the
\nmemory of a face. These poems are intimate with everything that vanishes too quickly.<\/p>\n
Biography
\nEngj\u00ebll I. Berisha, was born on June 17th, 1962 in Korenice, District of Gjakova. During
\nhis studies on Albanian Language and Literature in Prishtina, has frequently published
\non periodicals since 1985 and continued for many years.
\nPublished his first book in 1990 while continuing later with four poetry volumes. In 1993
\nestablished the Literary magazine \u201cFiction Magazine\u201d while serving as its managing
\neditor. Has been a contributor on almost every newspaper published in Kosova, while in
\n1995-1999, worked as an investigative journalist in the daily \u201cBota Sot\u201d and in the
\nweekly \u201cEurozeri\u201d.
\nIn 1997 in the traditional conferences of Gje\u00e7ovi, earned the annual prize for best
\npoetry. In 2002, in the conference of poetry, won the prize of \u201cpoetry gathering\u201d with his
\nbook entitled: \u201c\u00c7ati eshtrash\u201d(House Ceiling of Dreams).
\nIn December 2006, won a literary prize, \u201cSerembe on Poetry\u201d with his book, \u201cDrunken
\nmemory\u201d from the Art Club of La\u00e7. His verses are included in the anthology \u201cTo whom
\nare you fatherland\u201d, authored by Ali Podrimja.<\/p>\n
During the last war of Kosovo, in the last massacre known as the Massacre of \u201cMej\u00ebs e
\nKorenic\u00ebs\u201d both of his brothers were killed and his uncle, his house was burned
\nincluding his library with more than three thousand books. Therefore all his manuscripts
\nand publications were burned. This is the reason why he has republished this collection
\nof poetry, with the first volumes burned and with other works written on the topics of
\nKosovo War which he experienced first hand.
\nIs the founder and managing editor of the journal of those Missing in Action and have
\nDissapeared \u201cApril 27\u201d. Since 2005 is the chairman of the Literary Club \u201cGjon Nikolle
\nKazazi\u201d, in Gjakova. For many years has been a staff member and for fifteen years
\nserves as the director of the regional \u201cIbrahim Rugova\u201d Library in Gjakova.<\/p>\n
Bibliography of the author:
\n– \u201cDita me h\u00ebn\u00eb e me nuse\u201d poezi \u201cBuzuku\u201d. Prishtin\u00eb, 1991.
\n– \u201cAvenyt\u00eb e muzgut\u201d, poezi, Prishtin\u00eb. 1994.
\n– \u201cDiaspora shqiptare\u201d, stories. 1993.
\n– \u201cGjarpri n\u00eb shishe\u201d, poezi, Prishtin\u00eb,2000.
\n– \u201cMasakra e Mej\u00ebs e Korenic\u00ebs\u201d, publicistik\u00eb, Gjakov\u00eb.2000.
\n– \u201c\u00c7ati eshtrash\u201d, poezi, Prishtin\u00eb, 2003.
\n– \u201cKujtes\u00eb e dehur\u201d, poezi, Prishtin\u00eb, 2003.
\n– \u201cDyert e qiellit\u201d, storie \u2013 publicistik\u00eb, Prishtin\u00eb, 2005.
\n– \u201cRikrijimi i librit\u201d, opusi. Gjakov\u00eb 2006.
\n-\u201cRoli edukativ i bibliotekave shkollore dhe publike n\u00eb Kosov\u00eb\u201d, Botues: Biblioteka \u201cIbrahim
\nRugova\u201d, Gjakov\u00eb, 2011.-
\n-\u201c Havv Much Times for an age\u201d poezi t\u00eb p\u00ebrkthyera n\u00eb gjuh\u00eb
\nangleze. USA, Botoi \u201cLULU, 2010.
\n-\u201cMartir\u00ebt e Korenic\u00ebs\u201d, Monografi. Botoi, Klubi letrar \u201cGjon N. Kazazi\u201d. 2013, Gjakov\u00eb.
\nInternational:
\n– \u201c Havv Much Times for an age\u201d poezi t\u00eb p\u00ebrkthyera n\u00eb gjuh\u00eb angleze. USA, Botoi
\n\u201cLULU\u201d. Shtetet e Bashkuara t\u00eb Amerik\u00ebs, viti 2010.
\n– Botohet n\u00eb Antologjin\u00eb e Poet\u00ebve Bot\u00ebror \u201cWorld Poetry\u201d. Yearbook 2013. 211 Poets
\n93 Countries And Areas ("Poet\u00ebt Bot\u00ebror" 211 poet\u00eb nga 93 Shtete dhe Regjione). Duke
\np\u00ebrfaq\u00ebsuar Kosov\u00ebn.
\n– \u201cWorld Poetry\u201d. Yearbook 2015.
\n– Poetas del Mundo, antologji, Spanj\u00eb, 2011.
\n– Ann Arbor Review, is an independent. International Journal & ezine. 2014\/ 2015.<\/p>\n
– Prosopisia VOL \u2013 VIII, No. 2. 2015. A Venture of A.R.A. W. LII..An International
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