Esat Valla
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Esat Valla (1944 in Đakovica) is a Kosovar Albanian painter noted for his figuritive paintings of small animals or insects such as butterflies and birds.
He was born in Đakovica, at the time part of Nazi-occupied Albania (now Kosovo) and graduated from the Academy of Figurative Arts in Belgrade in 1971 studying the specialist art under Professor Zoran Petrovic. He is a member of the KAFA since 1976 [1].
He resides in Pristina where many of his awards have been won.
[edit] Notable awards
- 1974 - The Public's Prize ,Spring Salon, Pristina
- 1978 - League of Prizren Prize , Prizren
- 1980, The Public's Prize , Spring Salon , Pristina
- 1982, Mosa Pijade Prize , the ll-th Kosova Spring Salon , Pristina
- 1983 Prize at the 9th Biennial of Drawing , Pristina
- 1988 The Public's Prize , Spring Salon , Pristina
- 1994, Prize for Painting , The Migration contest