Dhimitër Shuteriqi

Dhimitër Simon Shuteriqi
Born (1915-07-26)July 26, 1915
Elbasan, Principality of Albania
Died July 22, 2003(2003-07-22) (aged 87)
Tirana, Albania
Nationality Albanian
Occupation scholar, philologist, writer
Known for Albanian League of Writers and Artists
History of Albanian Literature, 1983
Albanian Writing in the Years 1332–1850, 1976

Dhimitër Shuteriqi (1915-2003) was an Albanian scholar, literary historian, and writer.

Life

Dhimitër S. Shuteriqi was born in Elbasan in a patriotic and intellectual family. His father was Simon Shuteriqi, participant in the Literary Congress of Monastir (1908) and Congress of Elbasan (1909), as well as one of the founders of the Shkolla Normale e Elbasanit.[1]
Shuteriqi attended the secondary school in Korça. He studied at the Universities of Grenoble and Lyon in France and taught school in Elbasan in 1942–1943. Shuteriqi began writing in the 1930s and was to become an influential literary historian during the socialist period. He was a member of parliament for many years, president of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists (ALWA) from 1950 to 1973, and a member of the Academy of Sciences from 1973.[2] As chairman of the ALWA, he participated in the Albanian Congress of Orthography of 1972 and was one of the signatories.[3] Dhimitër Shuteriqi is remembered for his research in the fields of literature, history, and folklore, in particular for his standard histories and anthologies of Albanian literature. Among his many works are Shkrimet shqipe në vitet 1332–1850 (Albanian Writing in the Years 1332–1850), Tirana 1976, Autorë dhe tekste (Authors and Texts), Tirana 1977, and Historia e letërsisë shqiptare (History of Albanian Literature), Tirana 1983.

Shuteriqi was also author of prose and poetry. His first poetry was named Kosova and was published in the Kosova newspaper of Albanian community of Constanța, Romania, in 1933. He was inspired by Romanticism (Victor Hugo, Lamartine, De Vigny, Byron, etc.) until 1943 when he switched to Realism, and later Socialist Realism.[4] His two-volume Çlirimtarët (The Liberators), Tirana 1952 and 1955, the first post-World War II Albanian novel, painted a picture not only of the squalor and sufferings of the peasants before the "liberation" but also of the rise of class consciousness among them. It helped set the rather sluggish pace of socialist realism in the 1950s.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Xhevat Lloshi (2008), Rreth alfabetit të shqipes: me rastin e 100-vjetorit të Kongresit të Manastirit, Logos-A, pp. 65, 75–76, ISBN 9789989582684
  2. ↑ Elsie, Robert (2005). Albanian literature: a short history. I.B.Tauris. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-84511-031-4.
  3. ↑ Kastriot Myftaraj (30 July 2012), Biografia e fshehur e delegatëve të Kongresit të Drejtshkrimit të vitit 1972 [The hidden biography of the delegates of the Congress of Orthography of 1972] (in Albanian), Telegraf, pp. 10–11
  4. ↑ Ben Andoni (2012), Në kujtim të Shuteriqit [In memory of Shuteriqi] (in Albanian), Revista Java, retrieved 2014-02-14
  5. ↑ Robert Elsie (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania (PDF). Historical Dictionaries of Europe 75 (2 ed.). Scarecrow Press. p. 417.
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