Fatos Lubonja
Fatos Lubonja (born 1951) is an Albanian writer and dissident.[1]
Life
Fatos is the son of Todi Lubonja, who was a close associate of Enver Hoxha and head of Albanian national television until the early 1970s. In the course of Hoxha's split with the USSR in 1960, Todi Lubonja was arrested for voicing opposition. Fatosi, who had been studying physics in Tirana, was also arrested due to the discovery of his diary, which was very critical of Hoxha.
Fatos Lubonja was initially sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. He was accused of belonging to a pro-Soviet circle in the prison and was sentenced to twenty more years. After having spent thirteen years at hard labor, he was moved to solitary confinement. There he wrote a diary and a novel on cigarette paper, which was concealed in the spine of a dictionary. His novel The Last Massacre is a take on communism under Hoxha.
Fatos Lubonja was released in 1991, after having spent seventeen years in prison and having suffered a nervous breakdown, while serving his sentence. He is an outspoken critic of the Albanian socio-political factors, i.e. right-wing leader Sali Berisha, Socialist Party leader Edvin Kristaq Rama, former KLA leader Ramush Haradinaj, Red and Black Alliance, and poet and novelist Ismail Kadare. He edits the literary journal Përpjekja (Endeavour), in Tirana.
References
- ↑ Bernard A. Cook (2001). "Lubonja, Fatos". In Bernard A. Cook. Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia 2. Garland Publishing. p. 797.
External links
- Përpjekja back issues at ceool.com