Ervin Hatibi

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Ervin Hatibi (born 1974) is a modern Albanian poet. He was born in Tirana and studied French at the Foreign Language Institute there. Ervin Hatibi is an eclectic versatile personality: a painter, writer and journalist. He managed to publish a first volume of poetry during the dictatorship,when he was 15 years old. It was during the 1990s, though, that his unconventional verse became popular, in particular with students in Tirana and elsewhere. The official website is www.ervinhatibi.com.

Among his verse collections are: Përditë shoh qiellin (I watch the sky every day), Tirana 1989; Poezi (Poetry), Tirana 1995;- which is his most famous collection of poems.

Pasqyra e lëndës (Table of contents), Tirana 2004.

He is also the author of a book of essays (pop-esseistics), notably Republick of Albanania, Tirana 2005.