Nokë Sinishtaj

Ndue Sinishtaj (August 24, 1944 ) is an Albanian, writer, a translator and former catholic priest.^[1]

Early life

Sinishtaj was born in Kshevë, a village in the Gruda region near Podgorica, at the time part of Yugoslavia (now Montenegro). He received his nickname Nokë from his family. He hails from the Shytaj brotherhood, a large family which numbered about 60 members, all living together in a big house called the "tower of Shytaj". He is the fourth of a total of thirteen children in the Sinishtaj family. As pastoralism was the family occupation and means of survival, he was a shepherd in his childhood.

Elementary School began in Tuzi Kshevë which teachers spoke the Gheg dialect to continue toward the capital as a city of Zadar and Pazinit where he finished classic high school . Balkan centers as Zagreb and Rijeka where he began studies of theology, Noka, takes the path to a great European center as was Florence Italy where he graduates in theology.^[2]

Intellectual forming

For Nokë and his family, was a great honor and nomination as a catholic priest and the coming back in Malësija. For complete five years, would serve as priests in Gusija, Tuzi and Hot. While serving as priests, he is known for his oratorical skills or preaching church. However, after five years, he let the priest tunic to create his family with which he lives today in Switzerland.

Many years after leaving the priesthood, exactly in 2000, he published a book in prose, equally autobiographical diary, or we might call as a confession made to justify the act. This book was titled "Confessions of a rebellious priest". In this publicist book which has more than hundred pages, Ndue recounts the problems that he met during the mission of the priesthood. On the basis of those events who wrote, Ndue despairs of hostile behaviors inside the clergy and the injustices that were made there. This would be the reason that he would finally leave the priesthood but not the faith in God.

However Ndue did not stop studding so far as his intellectual formation in 1975 as he recorded Philosophy and Italian Literature at the University of Fribourg, where he graduated in 1981. Currently working as translator in Lucerne, and distinguished in his profession of translator as well as retired today is working as a translator at the Court of Lucerne. He is a polyglot, except Albanian he speaks also Serbo-Croatian, Latin, German and Italian.^[3]

Works

Works in Albanian :^[4]

• “Mogilat e Kshevës” (1976)
• “Te varret e Kshevës”, poem (1976)^[5]
• “Syri i ngujuar”, poem (1998)
• “Në vend të epitafit”, poem (2002)
• "I vetmuar, në kopshtin tim, qaj për të afërmit e mi",(2002)^[6]
• “Spirale”, poem (2003)
• “Rekuiem për fshatin tim”, poem (2005)
• “Tetë letra të Martin Camaj”, (2000)
• “Nga sergjeni i harruar”, poem (2007)
• “Rrefimet e një prifti të rebeluar”, publicist (2000)^[7]
• ”Kupa e thyer e heshtjes”,poem (2010)^[8]
• “Nën arkada të universit”,poem (2013)^[9]

Works in Croatian :

• “More mira u nemiru”, poem (1974)
• “Nerastoceni mir”, poem (1974)
• "Dubrovnik", poem (1974)
• "Apokalipsa Paska s Prokletia", novel (1977)

Works in Italian

• "Rimani amica", poem(1977)

Work in German

• "Eingewickelt in sein Schweisstuch", poem (1994)

References