Betim Muço

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Betim Muço (born January 1947 in Tirana, Albania) is an Albanian writer, poet, translator, and physicist.

Primary career as a physicist

Muço studied physics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Tirana, from which he graduated in 1970. After graduation he worked for four years as math and physics teacher in the Krujë District, north of Tirana. In 1974 he moved back in the capital to work as a researcher in the Seismological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. From 1993 to 1997 he has been Director of the Institute and, until 2001, he was the head of the Seismological Network of Albania. In 2001 he left the country in order to emigrate to the United States. Muço has been a professor at the University of Tirana and a well-known specialist of the earth sciences: he has collaborated or directed many international science projects of the field.^[1]

Poet, fictional writer, and translator

Muço published his first poems when he was high school: his first book of poetry On the roads of fatherland (Albanian: Rrugëve të Atdheut) was published in 1967. During more 30 years of literary activity, Betim Muço has published more than 25 books with poems, short stories, novels and essays. He has won several national literary awards, in Albania and abroad. Many of his poems and short stories have been translated into literary anthologies, journals, and magazines of different countries.

Muço is also noted for his translations in Albanian of the works of Saul Bellow, Yukio Mishima, Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Alice Munro and many other authors.

Since 2001, he lives and works in the United States.

Links to Poetry work

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-013-0902-9 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-012-0185-6 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-4235-3_24 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-0348-8804-2_9 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00876234 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00876377 http://www.bssaonline.org/content/81/3/1015.extract http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2008/05/05/reportage-01 http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/eposters/eposter/s43b-2473/ http://www.geophysics.geol.uoa.gr/papers/makro/makro166.pdf ftp://ftp.iris.iris.edu/pub/Betim/Boise%202012%20-%20CVSZ_UPDATED.pdf http://www.amazon.com/Antologji-Poezisë-Botërore-të-Shekullit/dp/0979835 http://www.amazon.com/Bumerang-Betim-Mu%C3%A7o/dp/0979835259 http://www.recoursaupoeme.fr/po%C3%A8tes/betim-mu%C3%A7o

References

↑ Engineering geology and the environment: proceedings : International ... By Paul G. Marinos, Greek National Group of IAEG p.4043 Participants representing Albania

v t e Notable Albanian writers

Early authors	Constantine of Berat Pjetër Bogdani Pjetër Budi Gjon Buzuku Nicola Chetta Yahya Dukagjini Nezim Frakulla Hasan Zyko Kamberi Luca Matranga Mesihi Sulejman Naibi Giuseppe Serembe Giulio Variboba Muçi Zade

Classical authors	Aleksandër Stavre Drenova Andon Zako Çajupi Girolamo de Rada Gjergj Fishta Haki Stërmilli Naim Frashëri Ernest Koliqi Faik Konica Dhimitër Pasko Sejfulla Malëshova Esad Mekuli Millosh Gjergj Nikolla Ndre Mjeda Ndoc Nikaj Fan S. Noli Lasgush Poradeci Filip Shiroka Sterjo Spasse Pashko Vasa Pjetër Zarishi

Modern	Dritëro Agolli Mimoza Ahmeti Fatos Arapi Lindita Arapi Ben Blushi Kiço Blushi Gaqo Bushaka Martin Camaj Diana Çuli Bedri Dedja Elvira Dones Sabri Godo Ervin Hatibi Nasho Jorgaqi Ismail Kadare Helena Kadare Teodor Keko Musine Kokalari Fatos Kongoli Vath Koreshi Teodor Laço Natasha Lako Bardhyl Londo Betim Muço Besnik Mustafaj Fadil Paçrami Ludmilla Pajo Arshi Pipa Ali Podrimja Thanas Qerama Azem Shkreli Dhimitër Shuteriqi Drago Siliqi Llazar Siliqi Xhevahir Spahiu Luan Starova Kasëm Trebeshina Ornela Vorpsi Bilal Xhaferri Dhimitër Xhuvani Jakov Xoxa Moikom Zeqo Visar Zhiti Preç Zogaj Ardian Ferit Amiti

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