Robert Elsie
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Robert Elsie (born in 1950 in Vancouver, Canada) is an expert in Albanian culture and affairs.
Elsie studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1972 with a diploma in Classical Studies and Linguistics. In the following years, he continued his post-graduate studies at the Free University of Berlin, at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and at the University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne, at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Ireland, and at the University of Bonn, where he finished his doctorate (Dr. Phil.) in 1978 at the Linguistics Institute.
From 1978 on, Elsie was able to visit Albania several times with a group of students and professors from the University of Bonn, visits which first awakened in him an interest for the culture of the tiny and, at the time, exotic Balkan country. For several years consecutive, he also attended the International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture, held in Pristina, Kosovo. From 1982 to 1987, he worked for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn. Since that time he has worked as a freelance conference interpreter, primarily for Albanian and German.
Robert Elsie is the author of numerous books and articles, in particular on various aspects of Albanian culture and affairs. He lives in the Eifel mountains of Germany, not far from the Belgian border.
[edit] Publications
The below are selected English-language publications (author, editor or translator). Robert Elsie has approximately 20 additional books in Albanian or German, of which he was author or editor.
- Robert Elsie, editor (2006). Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood : Modern Albanian Short Stories (Writings from an Unbound Europe). Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-2336-3.
- Robert Elsie (2006). Albanian Literature : A Short History. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 1-84511-031-5.
- Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck, editors (2004). Songs of the Frontier Warriors: Kenge Kreshnikesh--Albanian Epic Verse in a Bilingual English-Albanian Edition. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers; Bilingual edition. ISBN 0-86516-412-6.
- Visar Zhiti, Robert Elsie (Translator) (2004). The Condemned Apple : Selected Poetry. Green Integer; Bilingual edition. ISBN 1-931243-72-7.
- Robert Elsie (2004). Historical Dictionary of Kosova (European Historical Dictionaries). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-5309-4.
- Robert Elsie (2003). Historical Dictionary of Albania (European Historical Dictionaries). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4872-4.
[edit] External links
- Robert Elsie's personal site with a lot of documentation.
- Robert Elsie's site about Albanian literature.
[edit] Notes
- From the first version [1] this article includes the text from Robert Elsie's personal site with explicit permission ([2]) of the site author to use it under GNU FDL.
