LLESHANAKU, Luljeta

2017 Visitor
2017 50th Anniversary Guest
  • Europe
  • Southern Europe
  • Albania

Luljeta Lleshanaku (Albania, IWP '99) is the author of seven poetry collections in Albanian and nine collections in translation. Her poems have been published in four English-language volumes, including Haywire: New & Selected Poems (2011) from Bloodaxe Books in the UK, and Fresco (2002) and Child of Nature (2010) from New Directions in the US. Both presses will release her collection Negative Space in 2018. Lleshanaku has been the recipient of Albania's National Silver Pen Prize in 2000, the Kristal Vilenice Prize in 2009, and the PEN Albania 2016 award.

Happening Now

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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