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Mon, 05/23/2022 - 17:27

ALBANIAN-AMERICAN POET GJEKE MARINAJ VISITED TSUULL

Today, on May 23rd meeting with the Albanian-American poet, writer, translator, literary critic, publisher and philosopher, scientist, PhD Gjekë Marinaj was held at Alisher Navo’i Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature with participation of professors and students. 

The event was opened by the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, DSc Nozliya Normurodova who also made a speech on the topic of "Gjekë Marinaj: Life and Creativity" introducing life and works of an Albanian writer.

Moreover, the writer Ulugbek Hamdam shared his views on "Poet and Time" in the meeting. Students of our university recited examples of poems by Gjekë Marinaj translated into Uzbek. 

 Gjekë Marinaj expressed his deep gratitude to all participants and answered all questions with great pleasure. 

The lectures were also followed by a question-answer session between students and the writer. 

Gjekë Marinaj was born on May 26, 1965, in the great Malaysian district of Alba. Due to certain obstacles in his creative path, the poet first moved from Albania to Yugoslavia and then to the United States. Marinaj has been awarded with the largest international literary awards of the Albanian government - the Albanian BookerMan, the Pjetër Arbnori Award; The Sojurin Award; He has been awarded The Golden Pen Award and a number of prestigious Vietnamese awards and Italy’s 2019 International Authorship Awards. Our guest was awarded the title of "Nation's Ambassador" by the Albanian government. Gjekë Marinaj’s books such as "Do Not Depart From Me," "Infinit," "Prayer on the Eighth Day of the Week," "The Other Side of the Mirror," and " Some Things Can't Be Kept Secret" have been published in dozens of countries around the world, in Russian, Vietnamese, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, French, Lao, Bengali and Spanish. Gjekë Marinaj is currently the director of the Mundus Artium Press, a publishing house of world literature in partnership with the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Texas.