Ndriçim Ademaj, born in 1991 in Prizren, Kosovo, is the author of four literary works in Albanian, including three poetry collections and one novel. Considered one of the representatives of the new generation of authors from Kosovo, he has participated in various literary festivals and events in France, Switzerland, Germany, North Macedonia, Albania, and Kosovo. In 2022, he won the Francophonie Prize at the International Poetry Contest of Sorbonne University in Paris, and in 2023, the translation in French of his book Këngë nga Rruga e Farkëtarëve/Chants de la Rue des Forgerons received a special mention for translation awarded by the French PEN Club. Currently based in Paris, he continues his writing and self-translation projects and teaches creative writing at CY Cergy Paris University.
Këngë nga rruga e farkëtarëve - Songs From Blacksmiths Street
Songs From Blacksmiths Street is a collection where Ademaj presents poems inspired by his travels through cities such as Geneva, Prizren, Pristina, Tirana, and Skopje. The poems delve into themes of love, memory, and the inescapable past, portraying a journey between love and forgetting. Ademaj’s work is noted for its vivid imagery and exploration of modernity, reflecting on the human condition through poetic expression. …
Pa heronj, pa bujë
An engrossing novel, rooted in memory – personal and collective – hopeless and encouraging at the same time; a story of human lives diluted and disfigured by the absurdity of big cities, homesickness for a distant and wounded country and the multiple facets of the Kosovo war, reflected by the eyes of a child free from any ideological or political bias. …