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BOOK PRESENTATION: "Stigmata" by Gëzim Hajdari (bilingual Italian/English
edition, transl. Cristina Viti, Shearsman Books, 2016).
Gëzim Hajdari will be in conversation with Cristina Viti & Ian Seed
Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH
Tuesday 9 February, 2016; 7:30pm, admission free
Gëzim Hajdari (b. 1957) was born in Lushnja, Albania, but has lived in
Frosinone, Italy, since 1992, initially in the ruins of an abandoned building,
but now in an apartment that he was awarded by the town council after he was
awarded the prestigious Montale Prize. He writes in both Albanian and Italian,
but is perhaps more recog-nised in his adopted country than in his native land.
Stigmate / Vragë appeared in a bilingual edition in 2002 and here receives its
first complete English translation. “My identity is Gëzim, my body is my
fatherland,” says the author.
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